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An artistic, androgynous gay son contrasted with a coddling mother and a stern, distant, and medically-minded father to whom he must rationalize his sexuality to. Eventually he leaves to Italy with another gay man.
Often noted for Marcel Proust's violent dislike for the book—possibly of a rivalry with Lucien's similarities to Proust's life and his À la recherche du temps perdu.
Also see:
- "Proust and ambient medico-literary Homosexualities 1885-1922: Sodome et Gomorrhe n'a rien [...] de commun avec la litterature de l'inversion, que ce soit en 1890, en 1910, ou en 1920" (2012) by Michael Finn
- "Lucien de Binet-Valmer (1910)" by Jean-Yves Alt at Culture-et-Debats
