In Search of Lost Time, Vol 4
Sodom and Gomorrah
Marcel Proust author C K Scott Moncrieff translator Terence Kilmartin translator D J Enright translator D J Enright editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Dec '96
Should be back in stock very soon
The definitive translation of the greatest French novel of the twentieth century
Describes the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century and exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and muses upon the subjects of homosexuality and sexual jealousy.
THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION
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.
A giant miniature, full of images, of superimposed gardens, of games conducted between space and time -- Jean Cocteau
One of the cornerstones of the Western literary canon * The Times *
Proust isn't just the most profound of novelists, but the most entertaining, too * Independent *
The way he replicates the workings of the mind changed the art of novel-writing forever...his style is extraordinary, enveloping, captivating * Guardian *
ISBN: 9780099362517
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 38mm
Weight: 447g
656 pages