Sodom and Gomorrah: Remembrance of Things Past - Volume 4 Audiobook (Unabridged)

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th century literature. Neville Jason's widely praised 39 CD abridged version has rightly become an audiobook landmark and now, upon numerous requests, he is recording the whole work unabridged which, when complete, will run for some 140 hours.

Sodom and Gomorrah is the fourth of seven volumes. Accidentally witnessing an encounter between the Baron de Charlus and the tailor Jupien, the narrator's eyes are opened to a world hidden from him until now; he suspects that Albertine is attracted to her own sex.

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"The most challenging of the volumes to date. Like the devotion to place name etymologies, it is compelling, edifying and at times utterly arid-- to the point where the writing effectively closes itself off and turns into a deepening game within terminal realism-- artifacts that remain still and distant to this reader at the conclusion, but which may no doubt be made vibrant over the next volumes as their significance and relevance are revealed. The stage is at all times being set and struck simultaneously, the cast is ever-growing and one simply must let go of the idea that elements will be resolved according to the standard clock-- how much I wanted a synthesis of Swann in this volume and how frustrated I was to be introduced to yet further salons and their politics in assiduous detail. It is Proust's great talent to bring detail to the page, but it is his capacity to synthesize and reflect upon that detail and show each fragment of its significance that is his genius. The weft of the character, doubt counterpointed and foiled against those objects of earlier volumes are all well exploited in this volume to play with the opacity of Albertine's true nature, Proust's insecurities and love's capacity to enslave and humiliate even the most sparkling of intellects. Curious to see how the example of M. de Charlus will unfold in the ensuing pages, he stands now as a kind of inside-outsider, reflexively imperious and impressively ravaged by the clockwork of gossip playing against his high pedigree and intellect."

— Mike (4 out of 5 stars)