Marcel Proust 
Sodom and Gomorrah 

“Widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century, ” this French coming-of-age story in the tradition of philosophical fiction (Harold Bloom, literary critic).  Sodom and Gomorrah is the fourth volume of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, and the last publication from the French literary classic that Proust was able to preside over before his death in 1922. Touching on homosexuality for the first time, Sodom and Gomorrah is also a penetrating, often comic portrayal of French high society as well as a metaphysical exploration of the nature of time, memory, art, love, and death.   “Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the sentence. Oh if I could write like that!” —Virginia Woolf   “The greatest fiction to date.” —W. Somerset Maugham   “Proust is the greatest novelist of the 20th century.” —Graham Greene