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Sodom and Gomorrah / Marcel Proust ; translated with an introduction and notes by John Sturrock ; general editor, Christopher Prendergast.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
- Series:
- In search of lost time ; v. 4.
- In search of lost time ; v. 4
- Standardized Title:
- Sodome et Gomorrhe. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- France--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- France.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 557 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2004.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- Introduction / John Sturrock
- A Note on the Translation / Lydia Davis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page xv).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.
- Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0670033480
- 9780670033485
- OCLC:
- 54007311
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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