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Sodom and Gomorrah
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The fourth volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century
John Sturrock's acclaimed new translation of Sodom and Gomorrah will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. The fourth volume in this superb edition of In Search of Lost Time—the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s—brings us a more comic and lucid prose than English readers have previously been able to enjoy.
Sodom and Gomorrah takes up the theme of homosexual love, male and female, and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Proust’s novel is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that is on the way to supplanting it. Characters who had lesser roles in earlier volumes now reappear in a different light and take center stage, notably Albertine, with whom the narrator believes he is in love, and the insanely haughty Baron de Charlus.
John Sturrock's acclaimed new translation of Sodom and Gomorrah will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. The fourth volume in this superb edition of In Search of Lost Time—the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s—brings us a more comic and lucid prose than English readers have previously been able to enjoy.
Sodom and Gomorrah takes up the theme of homosexual love, male and female, and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Proust’s novel is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that is on the way to supplanting it. Characters who had lesser roles in earlier volumes now reappear in a different light and take center stage, notably Albertine, with whom the narrator believes he is in love, and the insanely haughty Baron de Charlus.
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“Confirmo, una vez más, que la gente que dice "voy a leer En busca del tiempo perdido pero solo el primer tomo, a lo sumo el segundo", es tonta. Tonta, tontísima. "Sodoma y gomorra" es por ahora el libro más anécdotico de la saga. Donde Marcel ya consolidado en esa sociedad de infidencias participa de lo más jugoso que puede haber en todo grupo endogámico: el sexo y los chismes.
No soy quién para hacer una lectura sobre la representación tanto de la homosexualidad masculina como de la femenina porque no sé tanto de Proust ni de en quién estaban realmente basados los personajes, lo cual un poco me molesta porque entiendo que hay un enorme subtexto repleto de tela para cortar. Pero "En busca del tiempo perdido" es otro de esos ejemplos que refrendan aquello de que "toda generación cree haber inventado todo" y que decir de una obra que era "adelantada a su época" muchas veces es desconocer los vaivenes de la historia.
El tema de "Sodoma y gomorra" es la sexualidad, sí, libre, fluída, con sus secretos a voces. Pero sobre todo es un libro sobre los celos, de los que Marcel adolece al punto de querer dinamitar sus relaciones más significativas. Sobre el final se casa con Albertina porque no le queda otra. Y no le queda otra porque él mismo no podría evitar casarse con ella. No es ya el rayo que lo parte a uno y lo deja estaqueado, del que habla Cortázar con cierta naificidad, sino un acto desesperado de posesión. El próximo volumen se llama "La prisionera". Ya me la veo venir.
¿Y querés que te diga una cosa más? Este volumen me dejó manija. Lo terminé y me quedé pensando. Apenas me levanté esta mañana lo recogí de la mesita de luz, fui hasta la biblioteca de no-leídos, agarré el tomo cinco y lo puse en la mochila.”
About Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. He began work on In Search of Lost Time sometime around 1908, and the first volume, Swann’s Way, was published in 1913. In 1919 the second volume, Within a Budding Grove, won the Goncourt Prize, bringing Proust great and instantaneous fame. Two subsequent installments—The Guermantes Way (1920–21) and Sodom and Gomorrah (1921)—appeared in his lifetime. The remaining volumes were published following Proust’s death on November 18, 1922: The Captive in 1923, The Fugitive in 1925, and Time Regained in 1927.
John Sturrock is a writer and critic who has previously translated Victor Hugo, Stendhal, and Rimbaud. A consulting editor at the London Review of Books, he lives in West Sussex, England.
John Sturrock is a writer and critic who has previously translated Victor Hugo, Stendhal, and Rimbaud. A consulting editor at the London Review of Books, he lives in West Sussex, England.
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