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Sodom and Gomorrah

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  • 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:

  1. He’s gay
  2. 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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