Sodom and Gomorrah

''the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident''

The fourth volume of Proust''s In Search of Lost Time extends the protagonist''s journey of discovery into the social world of fin-de-siècle France. As the biblically inflected title, Sodom and Gomorrah, sugges...