num_pages: 576
description: Like its predecessors, this wonderful new translation is certain to be hailed as a literary event, bringing us a more rich, comic, and lucid Proust than American readers have previously been able to enjoy. In this fourth volume, Proust’s novel takes up for the first time the theme of homosexual love and examines how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Sodom and Gomorrah is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that will inevitably supplant it.
language: English
title: Sodom and Gomorrah
titlecomplete: Sodom and Gomorrah (Cities of the Plains)
characters: Albertine Simonet, Narrator/Marcel, Mme Swann, Françoise de Combray, Charles Swann, Baron de Charlus, Odette de Crécy, Gilberte Swann, Robert de Saint-Loup
genres: 20th Century, Philosophy, French Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 8093
series: À la recherche du temps perdu
publisher: Viking Adult