In Search of Lost Time (In Search of Lost Time Vol 5)
Contributors: Christopher Prendergast (Editor); Carol Clark (Translator); Peter Collier (Translator)
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: October 14, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780713996081
Subjects: Classic fiction; Modern fiction
First sentence: At daybreak, my face still turned to the wall, and before I had seen above the big window-curtains what shade of colour the first streaks of light assumed, I could already tell what the weather was like.
Description: John Sturrock's acclaimed 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 superb 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.