- Title: Sodom and Gomorrah
- Author: Marcel Proust
- Genre/Subject: French literature
- Publisher: Kindle
- Number of pages:
- Publication Date: 1921
- Finish date: 6/14/2019
Review:
Good. Proust always is. But it’s pretty clear that:
- He’s gay
- He doesn’t understand gay
Characters in this volume are fairly cut and paste:
- The effeminate gay
- The base character servants
- The snobs
- The ridiculous scholar
- Etc. etc.
Maybe it’s the translation, but some of the phrasing is so, so convoluted I had to struggle to see what his meaning actually was.
Great, but needed a good editor to cut out some stuff and add others (Swann died? How? When? What now?).
Overall rating:
How I discovered or acquired this book: Mentioned in Fawlty Towers!
Noteworthy experiences while reading this book:
Check out author’s other books? Y
Recommend this book? To whom?
Ratings (1-10, 10 being exceptional):
- Quality of writing – 9
- Pace – 4
- Plot development – 4
- Characters – 4
- Enjoyability – 8
- Insightfulness – 9
- Ease of reading – 4
- Photos/illustrations – n/a
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