In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah v 4

Classic Historical Fiction

Author: Marcel Proust

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…..Read More

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