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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 IndependentMarcel 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. In the opening scene, the narrator secretly observes a sexual encounter between two men that is played out 'as though in obedience to the laws of an occult art' The book unfolds on matters of vice, inversion, mystery, desire, love, longing, and illusion.“The th
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- Author
- Marcel Proust, Terence Kilmartin, C.K. Scott Moncrieff
- Publisher
- Modern Library Classics
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780375753114
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Classics
- Rating
- 4.38 / 5 (305 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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