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Violence
None
No violence
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
Some
Adult romantic and sexual content; extended treatment of homosexuality in later volumes
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking; Parisian social life
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of memory, time, jealousy, social class, and the nature of art
What this book is about
Proust's seven-volume masterwork (1913-1927) follows Marcel through the social world of fin-de-siècle France. The later volumes (especially Sodom and Gomorrah, Time Regained) include significant homosexual content and explore the narrator's developing understanding of sexuality. One of the supreme achievements of world literature. For adults.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Homosexual content in later volumes
Adult sexual relationships
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