Sodoma i Gomorra

There are few readings as transformative as that of The Search for Lost Time. Throughout his seven volumes we follow the Narrator from his childhood, in By the Corner of Swann, to Maturity, in The Recovered Time; a path of discovery and growth towards the realization of the vocation of a writer. Time, love, jealousy, art, the individual in the face of society, death... It is a total work that contains in itself a philosophy and still challenges us with all its force. creative, now in the translation -careful and respectful of the author's sinuous style- of Valèria Gaillard. The fourth volume, Sodom and Gomorrah, takes place largely in Balbec, on the Normandy coast, where the protagonist returns to summer after the death of his grandmother, and focuses on the figures of Baron Charlus, who gives rise to reflections on homosexuality, and of Albertine, the narrator's second love.