Sodom And Gomorrah Marcel Proust William C Carter by Marcel Proust, William C. Carter 9780300186208, 0300186207 instant download after payment.

In Search Of Lost Time is Proust's masterpiece and was described by Somerset Maugham as the greatest novel of the 20th century. This edition contains notes, addenda and synopses.

"Proust isn't just the most profound of novelists, but the most entertaining, too."  -  The Independent

Marcel Proust's monumental seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. The fourth volume, Sodom and Gomorrah, is notable for its pioneering discussion of homosexuality. After its publication, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (known as Colette) wrote to Proust, "No one has written pages such as these on homosexuals, no one!" In Sodom and Gomorrah, Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century but also exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and muses upon the subjects of homosexuality and sexual jealousy.

Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. In Search Of Lost Time is one of the greatest, most enjoyable reading experiences in any language. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation.

"A giant miniature, full of images, of superimposed gardens, of games conducted between space and time."  -  Jean Cocteau

"The way he replicates the workings of the mind changed the art of novel writing forever...his style is extraordinary, enveloping, captivating."  -  The Guardian

This edition is edited and annotated by noted Proust scholar William C. Carter, who endeavours to bring the classic C. K. Scott Moncrieff translation closer to the spirit and style of the ori