How long does it take to read Sodom and Gomorrah?
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust takes about 9 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of In Search of Lost Time
Previous: The Guermantes Way Next: The Captive
About 9 hours 40 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1919. 527 pages, about 144,925 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 207 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"John Sturrock's new translation of Sodom and Gomorrah will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. the fourth volume in this edition of In Search of Lost Time - the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s - brings us a more comic and lucid prose than English readers have previously been able to enjoy." "Sodom and Gomorrah takes up for the first time the theme of homosexual love - male and female - and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Proust's novel is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that is on the way to supplanting it. Characters who had lesser roles earlier now reappear in a different light and take center stage, notably Albertine, with whom the narrator believes he is in love, and the insanely haughty Baron de Charlus."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Vida social y costumbres, Villages, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Social conditions
