The fourth volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth
century
John Sturrock's acclaimed new translation of Sodom and Gomorrah will
introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of
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 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 in earlier volumes 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.