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    Sodom and Gomorrah – Part I
    Sodom and Gomorrah – Part I
    Sodom and Gomorrah – Part I
    Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

    Sodom and Gomorrah – Part I

    Written by Marcel Proust

    Narrated by Neville Jason

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    About this audiobook

    Volume VII of the Naxos AudioBooks recording of Remembrance of Things Past. Sodom and Gomorrah, Part I: Accidentally witnessing an encounter between the Baron de Charlus and the tailor Jupien opens Marcel’s eyes to a world hidden from him till now. Meanwhile his love for Albertine is poisoned by the suspicion that she is attracted to her own sex. Sodom and Gomorrah – Cities of the Plain addresses the subject of homosexual love with insight and understanding.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateJul 1, 1998
    ISBN9789629546076
    Sodom and Gomorrah – Part I
    Author

    Marcel Proust

    Marcel Proust was born in Paris in 1871. His family belonged to the wealthy upper middle class, and Proust began frequenting aristocratic salons at a young age. Leading the life of a society dilettante, he met numerous artists and writers. He wrote articles, poems, and short stories (collected as Les Plaisirs et les Jours), as well as pastiches and essays (collected as Pastiches et Mélanges) and translated John Ruskin’s Bible of Amiens. He then went on to write novels. He died in 1922.

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    • 3/5
      3.5*

      I was heading to a 4* rating until the final chapter. Marcel baffled me in it with his abrupt volte face with regard to Albertine. Despite this, this 4th volume of the In Search of Lost Time series was much more enjoyable to me than the previous books. Or perhaps I am just getting habituated to Proust's style so that it doesn't annoy or bore me as much as it originally did...
    • 1/5
      What I do NOT about this book is that it is NOT in French as you so list it. I'm pissed!
    • 4/5
      “Cities of the Plain”, or the less subtly euphemistic title of “Sodom and Gomorrah”, gives the reader some idea of the main theme to be found within this part of Proust's Novel. The theme is introduced early on, and is relied upon for most of the plot, providing several scenarios and new concerns for the author. The Verdurins depicted as so boring in previous volumes return here to play a fairly large part in the story, where they become slightly more endearing though stay as uninteresting otherwise; I was hoping we had seen the last of them, and I don't know what inspired Proust to change his opinion on them and decide that they were worth writing more about. Apart from this, the book was about as enjoyably to read as the Guermantes way – that is, not as good as the first two parts.
    • 5/5
      Another shift of focus---to homosexuality, this time. The narrator's perspective of his acquaintances and friends is transformed by the discovery of homosexuals around him. In the case of men, this gives him an opportunity to explore the layers of interaction in society, and in the case of women, cause for anxiety, as he fears his companion has proclivities that will render her ultimately inaccessible to him.But it is just a shift in focus; the picture itself is the same. That is, same elements, same quality of insightful observations on the mind and on society, same subtle and powerful language.
    • 3/5
      While I found some moments that were entertaining or interesting such as the narrators return to the subject of sleep and memory, mostly this section was an aggravation brought on by the game playing and jealousies of Marcel.
    • 3/5
      It's a pity but I gave up on Proust half way through this...not his fault obviously
    • 3/5
      Beetje kabbelend en soms absoluut devi?rend tot langdradig, maar sublieme passages (de bespieding van Charlus, herinnering aan zijn grootmoeder). In dit deel staat vooral Charlus centraal en de donkere kant van de seksualiteit
    • 3/5
      Beetje kabbelend en soms absoluut deviërend tot langdradig, maar sublieme passages (de bespieding van Charlus, herinnering aan zijn grootmoeder). In dit deel staat vooral Charlus centraal en de donkere kant van de seksualiteit
    • 5/5
      In which our protagonist learns that almost everyone, other than him, is gay. Like the Guermantes' Way, this is a comedy of manners combined with some amazing essays and penetrating psychology. There's not much to say about this volume that one couldn't say about GW, except for the homosexuality, which is an interesting twist. As I was reading it, I thought about Hollinghurst's 'Line of Beauty,' and wondered whether Proust would have been different, better or worse if he'd been able to accept his own sexuality a bit and write about it in a less distanced way. I honestly have no idea.

      On a side note, I cried the first time I read the narrator's vision of his grandmother, and I cried this time too.