My bt iend high school was gay. Except that we didn’t monly e the word gay France at this time (even if ’s supposed to exist sce 1970). Actually, even the word homosexual wasn’t ed ont of children and teenagers at this time. So he was somethg he hadn’t even a word […]
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HOW EVELYN WGH'S GAY OXFORD LOVER BEME BRISHEAD REVISED’S SEBASTIAN
A small memory that ma me thk of the characters and thk of the gay experience. The novel Brishead Revised is about one very flawed gay man who suffers and like many gay men of the twentieth century, is not able to live the life he wants.
This mdset clouds the gay love, boyiends who live briefly together, and brews this se to a lost gay man choosg to further harm his life. The greatt sight om Brishead Revised is s layered, polilly ambiguo scen reflectg s ntroversial thor Wgh: a plited, anti-Semic, racist gay man. This is lked to the portrayal of how class imprisons gay men wh marriag which further imprison women.
It ma me want to read more: about Evelyn Wgh, about gay opprsn and their liberatn. Ined his tense relatnship wh a fellow stunt spired the most lourful and perhaps most famo character the book: the charismatic and unmistakably homosexual Lord Sebastian Flyte, regnisable to lns through his portrayal on screen by Anthony, who also wrote the 1938 classic Sop, regard the novel, published 1945, as his ‘magnum op’ and he revealed more of himself than any of his prev books.