Sodom and Gomorrah
By: Marcel Proust ; translated with an introduction and notes by John Sturrock ; general editor, Christopher Prendergast.
Contributors: Sturrock, John.; Prendergast, Christopher.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 557
Subjects: France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "John Sturrock's new translation of Sodom and Gomorrah will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. the fourth volume in this edition of In Search of Lost Time - the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s - brings us a more comic and lucid prose than English readers have previously been able to enjoy." "Sodom and Gomorrah takes up for the first time the theme of homosexual love - male and female - and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Proust's novel is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that is on the way to supplanting it. Characters who had lesser roles earlier now reappear in a different light and take center stage, notably Albertine, with whom the narrator believes he is in love, and the insanely haughty Baron de Charlus."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xv).