Sodom and Gomorrah
A Cultural, Audiobook, Philosophy book. ...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another,...
Le titre fait référence aux deux villes, Sodome et Gomorrhe, qui sont évoquées dans les textes sacrés de la Bible. Ces deux cites sont détruites et rayées de la carte par une tempête de feu au temps d'Abraham, comme un dechainement divin destiné a punir les habitants de ces villes qui avaient des moeurs malsaines ou mauvaises. Ce roman, narré a la première personne, ce dont on peut se demander si Proust a voulu en faire une sorte d'autofiction et traiter un sujet controverse a l’époque (qui parfois l'est encore aujourd'hui), l’homosexualité. En effet, ce récit est celui d'un...
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- Pages: 576 pages
- ISBN: 9780141956756 / 141956755
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...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal. Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah // Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey. Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah // It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one. Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah //
As our vision is a deceiving sense, a human body, even when it is loved as Albertines was, seems to us to be a few yards at a few inches distance from us. And similarly with the soul that inhabits it. A good case can be made that these books should be read one after the other, so as not to lose the narrative thread or to forget the... Let's say three stars for interminable party scenes and seven stars for solo Marcel going on about grandma and dreams and seeing an airplane for the first time (maybe my favorite page/paragraph so far -- the end of 581 and most of 582 -- typed up for safekeeping below). Oh place names reduced to their historical tribal derivation and... I'm sorry, I'm putting this whole series back on the 'to-read' list for now.It's not that they're bad. It's the precise opposite. I have been so distracted with work and other books that I've fallen behind schedule and now I've forgotten the events and even some of the characters.I enjoyed the three books I did finish immensely. I did...
