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A review by sydsnot71
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
4.0
Again, I think 'In Search of Lost Time' will only come into full focus at the end of the whole read. Once again Proust's book is packed full of all aspects of life. In this volume homosexuality, lesbianism, grief, jealousy, art, landscape, the meaning of place names, tr\ains, snobbery...etc.
We also see more of M. de Charlus, who is a magnificent fictional - semi-fictional? - character. There are titles and parties. Proust raises gossip to an art form. There's more humour here than you might have expected in a 'difficult' book.
Yes, sometimes I find myself irritated by the narrator's ridiculous jealous of Albertine, who he thinks is dangerously flirtatious with his friend Saint-Loup, but suspects is also a lesbian.
It's also fascinating to get impressions of a modernising world. We get cars and a glimpse of an aeroplane.
But magnificently packed with the 'joy of things being various'.
We also see more of M. de Charlus, who is a magnificent fictional - semi-fictional? - character. There are titles and parties. Proust raises gossip to an art form. There's more humour here than you might have expected in a 'difficult' book.
Yes, sometimes I find myself irritated by the narrator's ridiculous jealous of Albertine, who he thinks is dangerously flirtatious with his friend Saint-Loup, but suspects is also a lesbian.
It's also fascinating to get impressions of a modernising world. We get cars and a glimpse of an aeroplane.
But magnificently packed with the 'joy of things being various'.