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A review by fer_qc
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
4.0
The only way you can criticise Marcel Proust is by saying "You write way too much!Learn to sumarize and to put out what's not important, you crazy man! I want to know about the relationships of Mesieur du Charlus, about the vices that you suspected on Albertina or about that jealousy that makes y'all crazy. I don't care about knowing everything about every aristocrat that you've met in your snobby life".
The rest is absolutely perfect. Reading this book is like working in a goldmine, you have to read pages and pages until you finally find the gold, and when you do, and he finally gets to the point, and he starts telling us about the interesting people that he writes about, with his remarkable style, and his miraculous introspection, every sentence is GOLD.
By the way, the begining of this book, the first chapter, when he starts talking about bees and ends up spying on Mesieur Du Charlus and Jupien, is probably the best part of it all. So, if you start reading it and you don't really feel much exitement with that, this is not your book, because that's what the book is all about. About spying on gay or lesbian people in a society that doesn't accept them but in which if you are of noble birth and wealthy, they can easily forget about it if you come to their party and pretend to be their friend.
The rest is absolutely perfect. Reading this book is like working in a goldmine, you have to read pages and pages until you finally find the gold, and when you do, and he finally gets to the point, and he starts telling us about the interesting people that he writes about, with his remarkable style, and his miraculous introspection, every sentence is GOLD.
By the way, the begining of this book, the first chapter, when he starts talking about bees and ends up spying on Mesieur Du Charlus and Jupien, is probably the best part of it all. So, if you start reading it and you don't really feel much exitement with that, this is not your book, because that's what the book is all about. About spying on gay or lesbian people in a society that doesn't accept them but in which if you are of noble birth and wealthy, they can easily forget about it if you come to their party and pretend to be their friend.