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Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, #4)

Marcel Proust,

C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator)

Start date: July 1, 2013

Finish date: September 1, 2013

Discussion: Sodom and Gomorrah, vol. 4

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Dec 21, 2012 Karen· rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: in-french, mttbr-2013, 2013-year-of-reading-proust

Fluid becomes solid and then fluid again. Changing states, crossovers, transformations. Words produce pictures that turn back into words, black marks on a white page; dots, accents, commas, shapes of letters, enter through the cornea, the retina, the optic nerve, are processed into......... into what? Images, characters, narrative, scenes, landscapes, weather, tableaux, dialogue, spectacle, sensation. Reactions.

The cities of the plain:Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim, Bela.
But Proust takes his t ...more

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Jun 06, 2013 Darwin8u rated it really liked it · review of another edition

“But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.”
― Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

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Reviewing 'Sodom and Gomorrah' puts me in an awkward spot. What are the risks of looking back obliquely on Proust's fourth volume of 'In Search of Lost Time' (ISOLT)? Will any indirect reference to Proust's army of inverts turn me into a pillar of salt? Will I disquiet my friends and my family with funky quotes from Proust's salon-ce ...more

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Jul 06, 2015 Sue rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, read-2015, fiction, france, proust

I have to say, M. Proust really pulled this book out for me. I was not enjoying much of the middle of the book, but the last third was excellent and revived my spirits for continuing on with the saga. Once again it was some of the Salons that tended to decrease my connection although the descriptions of the Balbec area and our narrator's return to the coast caught me up again.

In a section that seemed to sum up much of the meaning of this book, Proust writes:

Other women, it was true, had been in ...more

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