Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust; Part 2 (160 pages)
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For this meeting, please complete the 160 pages, reading up to "The Intermittencies of The Heart" within Part Two; Chapter One.
À la recherche du temps perdu is an exploration of "the past" and that which can be grasped, felt, or recaptured for a fleeting instant. Proust felt the effort worthwhile and tackled it in his 4,000-page novel, split into seven volumes.
We are now on Volume 4: "Sodom and Gomorrah". The meetings will be oversubscribed. RSVP, even if you are initially on the waitlist; regular readers/participants (anyone who joined for the first three volumes) will have a spot.
There are two acclaimed translators for Proust: C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Lydia Davis. I'm reading the Moncrieff version, but do your own research and select the translation you prefer.
Here is a link to the full Moncrieff box set:
https://a.co/d/iumU7XP
Here is a version of Sodom and Gomorrah on Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/sodomgomorrah0000prou/page/n13/mode/2up