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Cities of the Plain

Proust Marcel

Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks

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Cities of the Plain Marcel Proust - In this fourth volume, Prousts novel takes up for the first time the theme of homosexual love and examines how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Sodom and Gomorrah is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that will inevitably supplant it.
Available since: 11/02/2021.
Print length: 666 pages.

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