Books shelved as ench-gay-fictn: Toxique by Françoise Sagan, Derrière le sang huma by Robert Pelchat, La Tour Priape - nte érotique by Françoi...
Contents:
- FRENCH GAY FICTN BOOKS
- THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY AUTHOR WHO WR GAYS COMG OF AGE AMIDST FASCISM
- FRENCH GAY MORNISM
FRENCH GAY FICTN BOOKS
* french gay author *
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(shelved 1 time as ench-gay-fictn). Photos by John Folley, urty of Farrar, Strs and GirouxThe 24-year-old gay French wrer Édouard Louis scrib most French lerary novelists as "people om the bourgeoisie that wre about the bourgeoisie and don't really qutn the world. His but tobgraphil novel The End of Eddy, published France 2014, picts his childhood as a gay boy growg up an impoverished, Fascist-ridn small town of Hallenurt.
THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY AUTHOR WHO WR GAYS COMG OF AGE AMIDST FASCISM
(As every bottom knows, 's always the bottom, never the top, who gets the bnt of homophobia workg class towns. His dad, for stance, may nounce gay sex his hoe, but when he spots men beatg a lol gay man, he attacks the homophob.
Touchg on them of homosexualy, the stori were wrten by Prot durg the 1890s, when he was his 20s and puttg together the llectn of poems and short stori that would bee Plaisirs et l jours (Pleasur and Days). He cid not to clu GuiFamo books that were only found or published posthumolyShowMrice by EM ForsterForster’s tale of same-sex love early 20th-century England, which follows a young gay man om his schooldays, through universy and beyond, was origally wrten 1913-14 and was regularly revised durg his lifetime. But although he showed to iends, cludg Christopher Isherwood, he didn’t try to get published, believg that he uld never get away wh a gay love story wh a happy endg.
FRENCH GAY MORNISM
“Prot is his 20s, and most of the texts evoke the awarens of his homosexualy, a darkly tragic way, that of a curse … In different ways, the young wrer transpos, sometim barely, the timate diary he uld not wre.
”Prot never publicly acknowledged his homosexualy, gog so far as to fight a duel wh a reviewer who had suggted, accurately, that he was gay. “At the same time that Prot was eager to make love to other young men, he was equally termed to avoid the label ‘homosexual’, ” wr Edmund Whe his bgraphy of the French novelist. “Years later he would tell André Gi that one uld wre about homosexualy even at great length, so long as one did not ascribe to onelf.