The aríiele deals with Proust's creation of language descriptive of mas-culine horaosexuality in his novel Sodom and Gomorrah. Tlie thesis is that Proust used the categories of innocence and vice, implieit in lhe contexture of this novel, to define lhe would-he nature of homoerotism, Both of these calegories are heavily branded hy tlie nineteenth century's evolutionist and instinctive ideologies and draw a moral profile of homoerotism grounded in a predominantly naturalist, prejudiced, and stigmatizing ethic. Tlie artiele also shows tlie articulation of Proust's theoretical-aestheíic invention regarding homoerotism with the historical-social reality of his time and points to the author's extraordinary ahility lo redescribe the idea of subjecí or subjecüvity as a blending of contingent beliefs and desires.