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Posted by Pejman Yousefzadeh on Thu Jan 01, 2009 at 08:37:48 PM EST

I continue to plow through Proust, hoping that I will finish his magnum opus before I die of old age (really, the writing is fascinating but it is also immensely laden with imagery and meaning and one is obliged to take one's time in order to make sure that justice is done to the storytelling effort). In Sodom and Gomorrah, the narrator is brought face to face with homosexual activity (a development that ought, of course, to be considered in light of Proust's own homosexuality) and the narrator's jealousy concerning the activities of Albertine comes to the fore. It also represents the narrator's decision to retreat from the social life he previously engaged in, a life filled with parties and gatherings with the Guermantes and returns to Balbec, where his relationship with Albertine is furthered. As Swann was conflicted in his decision on whether to marry Odette, the narrator faces a tortured decision on whether he should pursue his relationship with Albertine further given what he suspects about her fidelity.

As with his previous books in the series, Proust demonstrates himself to be a master of literary imagery, the seemingly random but deeply meaningful directions our memory takes us and character development; Proust's characters are marvels to behold since he has a genius for making them leap out of the page for us to consider them in . . . well . . . at times, I am fooled into believing that Proust's characters are actual people--so effective is he at drawing out their personalities. As banal as much of the actual storyline is, the discussions on the larger nature of that storyline are profound.

And as challenging as Proust is to plow through, the profundity he brings to his writing makes it all worthwhile.

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