Book description
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.
Marcel Proust was born in Auteuil in 1871. In his twenties he became
a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris
salons of the day. After 1889, however, his suffering from chronic
asthma, the death of his parents and his growing disillustionment with
humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. He slept by
day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the
completion of
A la recherche du temps perdu
. He died in 1922 before publication of the last three volumes of his
great life's work.
