Sodom and Gomorrah

Desire, jealousy, and the hidden lives behind polite society.

In Sodom and Gomorrah, the fourth volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, the narrator looks beneath the polished surface of French society to explore the private desires, secrets, and relationships that people carefully conceal from one another. The novel begins with the narrator witnessing a revealing encounter involving Baron de Charlus, opening his eyes to a world of same-sex desire that exists alongside the social conventions of the time. As the story moves between Paris and the seaside resort of Balbec, Proust examines love, jealousy, attraction, secrecy, and the complicated ways people understand themselves and others. He also returns to the narrator’s fascination with Albertine, whose behavior becomes increasingly difficult for him to interpret. With remarkable psychological insight, Proust shows how desire can be both liberating and destructive, and how the gap between public identity and private life can shape relationships in profound ways.

• The fourth volume of Proust’s seven-volume In Search of Lost Time
• Explores desire, love, jealousy, secrecy, identity, and social convention
• Examines the hidden relationships and private lives behind the world of Parisian society
• Develops the narrator’s complicated relationship with Albertine
• Continues Proust’s exploration of memory, time, social ambition, and human desire

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Intimate, observant, and psychologically rich, Sodom and Gomorrah reveals the hidden side of the society Proust has spent earlier volumes exploring, showing how desire and secrecy can transform the way we see the people closest to us.

About the Author

Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic best known for In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest achievements of modern literature. His writing transformed the novel through its exploration of memory, perception, consciousness, love, jealousy, art, and the passage of time. Drawing extensively on his own experiences and the social world of fin-de-siècle France, Proust created a vast literary universe whose influence continues to shape modern fiction.