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• IN SEARCH OF LOST GAY: PROT'S HOMOSEXUAL LOVE STORI WILL FALLY BE PUBLISHEDTHE TEEMED FRENCH THOR KEPT THE 1890 TAL PRIVATE BEE OF THEIR "DACY."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CULTUREBY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEAUGT 12, 2019/2:43 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3652PX;WIDTH:2872PX;}THE PRT COLLECTOR/PRT COLLECTOR/GETTY IMAGMARCEL PROT, FRENCH TELLECTUAL, NOVELIST, SAYIST AND CRIC, LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY. PORTRA OF PROT, (1871-1922), THOR OF A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU. (PHOTO BY THE PRT COLLECTOR/PRT COLLECTOR/GETTY IMAG)BY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEAUGT 12, 2019 / 2:43 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"IN SEARCH OF LOST GAY: PROT'S HOMOSEXUAL LOVE STORI WILL FALLY BE PUBLISHED","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-08-12T18:43:11.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-08-12T18:43:11.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"LTER FABIAN BRATHWAE","KEYWORDS":"BOOKS","ARTICLESECTN":"CULTURE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MARCEL PROT'S IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME IS THE LONGT, GAYT BOOK YOU'VE NEVER READ. PUBLISHED SEVEN VOLUM BETWEEN 1913 AND 1927 (AND TOTALG 4,000 PAG), 'S NSIRED ONE OF THE MOST FLUENTIAL LERARY WORKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. BUT WHILE PROT, A NOTED HOMOSEXUAL, TOUCH UPON QUEER THEM HIS MAGNUM OP, SEEMS HE SAVED THE JUICIT STUFF FOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PROT WROTE NE STORI THE 1890S DURG HIS 20S, AS HE WAS DISVERG AND G TO TERMS WH HIS HOMOSEXUALY. OR, RATHER, AVOIDG G TO TERMS. THE STORI WERE TEND FOR HIS LLECTN OF POEMS AND SHORT STORI, PLAISIRS ET L JOURS (PLEASUR AND DAYS), PUBLISHED 1896. PROT ULTIMATELY CID NOT TO CLU THEM, BUT THIS FALL THE STORI—CLUDG A MIX OF FAIRY TAL, FANTASY, AND DIALOGU WH THE AD—WILL FALLY SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY WHEN THEY ARE PUBLISHED THEIR ORIGAL FRENCH UNR THE TLE LE MYSTéRIX CORRPONDANT (THE MYSTER CORRPONNT), 97 YEARS AFTER PROT'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TELLECTUAL, NOVELIST, SAYIST, AND CRIC—WHO IS BASILLY WHAT FRANCE WOULD LOOK LIKE IF WAS A PERSON—GETTY(ORIGAL CAPTN) PICTURE SHOWS A SEATED PORTRA OF FRENCH NOVELIST, MARCEL PROT(1871-1922). UNDATED PHOTO CIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}—WAS KNOWN TO BE GAY, BUT HE STILL CLUTCHED THAT CLOSET DOOR TIGHT EVEN WHILE GALLIVANTG AROUND, CISG FOR THAT JE NE SAIS CK. IN A PIQUE OF MASC-FOR-MASC REALNS, PROT EVEN CHALLENGED REVIEWER JEAN LORRA TO A DUEL 1897 FOR SUGGTG PROT'S RELATNSHIP WH FELLOW NOVELIST LUCIEN DT WAS MORE THAN PLATONIC. THE TWO MEN DID THE WHOLE PISTOLS AT 25 PAC THG, BOTH MISSG EACH OTHER AND EMERGG OM THE STANDOFF UNSTHED—MUCH LIKE PROT'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STILL, HE WASN'T FOOLG ANYBODY—MARCEL PROT? HER? PROT BGRAPHER—AND A GAY LERARY IN HIS OWN RIGHT—EDMUND WHE WROTE OF PROT BEG "EAGER TO MAKE LOVE TO OTHER YOUNG MEN" BUT "EQUALLY TERMED TO AVOID THE LABEL 'HOMOSEXUAL.'" FOR PROT, WRG ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY WAS ONE THG, BUT BEG A HOMOSEXUAL WAS BEYOND THE 19TH-CENTURY PALE. WHICH IS KD OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FOR NTEXT, PROT DUELED FOR HIS "HETEROSEXUAL" HONOR TWO YEARS AFTER OSR WIL WAS TRIED FOR SOME GAY SH THE U.K. WIL SPENT TWO YEARS JAIL, LIVED THE RT OF HIS BRIEF LIFE EXILE, AND DIED PENNILS AND ALONE 1900 AT AGE 46. SOOOOOOO, THE 1890S MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE BT TIME TO ACT ON HOMOSEXUAL IMPULS, THOUGH WAS CLEARLY A UFUL (PUN TEND) TIME TO WRE ABOUT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LUC FRAISSE, A PROFSOR AT THE UNIVERSY OF STRASBOURG WHO EDED THE FORTHG LE MYSTéRIX CORRPONDANT, WROTE OF THE STORI:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHOUT DOUBT HE NSIRED THAT BEE OF THEIR DACY, THEY ULD HAVE OFFEND A SOCIAL I WHERE STRONG TRADNAL MORALS PREVAILED. [...] THE AWARENS OF HOMOSEXUALY IS EXPERIENCED AN EXCLIVELY TRAGIC WAY, AS A CURSE. WE DON’T FD, ANYWHERE, THOSE IC NOT TRODUCED HERE AND THERE THROUGHOUT IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, WHICH GIVE THE WORK ALL THE LORS OF LIFE, EVEN THE DARKT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GOOD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FRENCH PUBLISHG HOE ÉDNS FALLOIS IS RELEASG THE LLECTN THIS OCTOBER TO CI WH THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF PROT WNG FRANCE’S MOST PRTIG LERARY AWARD, THE PRIX GONURT. PLANS FOR AN ENGLISH TRANSLATN HAVE YET TO BE ANNOUNCED, BUT LET'S HOPE THE FRENCH DON'T KEEP ALL THAT MOODY 19TH-CENTURY HOMOSEXUAL LONGG TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• LE GAY PROT
• MARCEL PROT’S LOST GAY LOVE STORI TO FALLY BE PUBLISHED
• IN SEARCH OF THE LOST TIME OF A GAY JEWISH NOVELIST

IN SEARCH OF LOST GAY: PROT'S HOMOSEXUAL LOVE STORI WILL FALLY BE PUBLISHEDTHE TEEMED FRENCH THOR KEPT THE 1890 TAL PRIVATE BEE OF THEIR "DACY."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}CULTUREBY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEAUGT 12, 2019/2:43 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3652PX;WIDTH:2872PX;}THE PRT COLLECTOR/PRT COLLECTOR/GETTY IMAGMARCEL PROT, FRENCH TELLECTUAL, NOVELIST, SAYIST AND CRIC, LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY. PORTRA OF PROT, (1871-1922), THOR OF A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU. (PHOTO BY THE PRT COLLECTOR/PRT COLLECTOR/GETTY IMAG)BY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEAUGT 12, 2019 / 2:43 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"IN SEARCH OF LOST GAY: PROT'S HOMOSEXUAL LOVE STORI WILL FALLY BE PUBLISHED","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-08-12T18:43:11.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-08-12T18:43:11.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"LTER FABIAN BRATHWAE","KEYWORDS":"BOOKS","ARTICLESECTN":"CULTURE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MARCEL PROT'S IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME IS THE LONGT, GAYT BOOK YOU'VE NEVER READ. PUBLISHED SEVEN VOLUM BETWEEN 1913 AND 1927 (AND TOTALG 4,000 PAG), 'S NSIRED ONE OF THE MOST FLUENTIAL LERARY WORKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. BUT WHILE PROT, A NOTED HOMOSEXUAL, TOUCH UPON QUEER THEM HIS MAGNUM OP, SEEMS HE SAVED THE JUICIT STUFF FOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PROT WROTE NE STORI THE 1890S DURG HIS 20S, AS HE WAS DISVERG AND G TO TERMS WH HIS HOMOSEXUALY. OR, RATHER, AVOIDG G TO TERMS. THE STORI WERE TEND FOR HIS LLECTN OF POEMS AND SHORT STORI, PLAISIRS ET L JOURS (PLEASUR AND DAYS), PUBLISHED 1896. PROT ULTIMATELY CID NOT TO CLU THEM, BUT THIS FALL THE STORI—CLUDG A MIX OF FAIRY TAL, FANTASY, AND DIALOGU WH THE AD—WILL FALLY SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY WHEN THEY ARE PUBLISHED THEIR ORIGAL FRENCH UNR THE TLE LE MYSTéRIX CORRPONDANT (THE MYSTER CORRPONNT), 97 YEARS AFTER PROT'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TELLECTUAL, NOVELIST, SAYIST, AND CRIC—WHO IS BASILLY WHAT FRANCE WOULD LOOK LIKE IF WAS A PERSON—GETTY(ORIGAL CAPTN) PICTURE SHOWS A SEATED PORTRA OF FRENCH NOVELIST, MARCEL PROT(1871-1922). UNDATED PHOTO CIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}—WAS KNOWN TO BE GAY, BUT HE STILL CLUTCHED THAT CLOSET DOOR TIGHT EVEN WHILE GALLIVANTG AROUND, CISG FOR THAT JE NE SAIS CK. IN A PIQUE OF MASC-FOR-MASC REALNS, PROT EVEN CHALLENGED REVIEWER JEAN LORRA TO A DUEL 1897 FOR SUGGTG PROT'S RELATNSHIP WH FELLOW NOVELIST LUCIEN DT WAS MORE THAN PLATONIC. THE TWO MEN DID THE WHOLE PISTOLS AT 25 PAC THG, BOTH MISSG EACH OTHER AND EMERGG OM THE STANDOFF UNSTHED—MUCH LIKE PROT'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STILL, HE WASN'T FOOLG ANYBODY—MARCEL PROT? HER? PROT BGRAPHER—AND A GAY LERARY IN HIS OWN RIGHT—EDMUND WHE WROTE OF PROT BEG "EAGER TO MAKE LOVE TO OTHER YOUNG MEN" BUT "EQUALLY TERMED TO AVOID THE LABEL 'HOMOSEXUAL.'" FOR PROT, WRG ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY WAS ONE THG, BUT BEG A HOMOSEXUAL WAS BEYOND THE 19TH-CENTURY PALE. WHICH IS KD OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FOR NTEXT, PROT DUELED FOR HIS "HETEROSEXUAL" HONOR TWO YEARS AFTER OSR WIL WAS TRIED FOR SOME GAY SH THE U.K. WIL SPENT TWO YEARS JAIL, LIVED THE RT OF HIS BRIEF LIFE EXILE, AND DIED PENNILS AND ALONE 1900 AT AGE 46. SOOOOOOO, THE 1890S MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE BT TIME TO ACT ON HOMOSEXUAL IMPULS, THOUGH WAS CLEARLY A UFUL (PUN TEND) TIME TO WRE ABOUT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LUC FRAISSE, A PROFSOR AT THE UNIVERSY OF STRASBOURG WHO EDED THE FORTHG LE MYSTéRIX CORRPONDANT, WROTE OF THE STORI:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHOUT DOUBT HE NSIRED THAT BEE OF THEIR DACY, THEY ULD HAVE OFFEND A SOCIAL I WHERE STRONG TRADNAL MORALS PREVAILED. [...] THE AWARENS OF HOMOSEXUALY IS EXPERIENCED AN EXCLIVELY TRAGIC WAY, AS A CURSE. WE DON’T FD, ANYWHERE, THOSE IC NOT TRODUCED HERE AND THERE THROUGHOUT IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, WHICH GIVE THE WORK ALL THE LORS OF LIFE, EVEN THE DARKT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GOOD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FRENCH PUBLISHG HOE ÉDNS FALLOIS IS RELEASG THE LLECTN THIS OCTOBER TO CI WH THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF PROT WNG FRANCE’S MOST PRTIG LERARY AWARD, THE PRIX GONURT. PLANS FOR AN ENGLISH TRANSLATN HAVE YET TO BE ANNOUNCED, BUT LET'S HOPE THE FRENCH DON'T KEEP ALL THAT MOODY 19TH-CENTURY HOMOSEXUAL LONGG TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

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. “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.

LE GAY PROT

“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. This b of lerary advice is herent wh Prot’s general closetedns – a secretivens that was all the more absurd sce everyone near him knew he was gay.

”Fraisse said the domant theme of the stori was the analysis of “the physil love so unjtly nied” that Prot wr of À la recherche, “ terms that announce and forhadow Sodome et Gomorrhe”, the fourth volume of the seri which the thor tackl homosexual love. “The awarens of homosexualy is experienced an exclively tragic way, as a curse. Prot often ed lbian love as a way to wrg about homoerotic sire, partly bee the female kd was, if not socially acceptable, at least a standard source of athetic isson, and partly bee gave him an acceptable distance om which to wre about his own same-sex ’s strikg how out of foc the stori seem: they have a trancelike rhythm that mak events uneventful, and an absence of narrative ph.

As Carter’s “Prot Love” tails, the novelist, like most wealthy gay men of his time, found lovers extensively among workg-class youths: waers at the Rz and chffrs at rorts. Not exclively so—Gilberte, the narrator’s first great love as a boy, was molled on several girls he knew—but Carter shows that Alberte, who domat the middle volum, is certaly a transmuted, if posed, versn of Prot’s beloved chffr, Aled suffered om a set of gay fact checkers, the person of other French wrers—Jean Cocte and Gi among them—who sffed regularly at the transparency of his disguis, potg out that the narrator’s blhe claim to have ma love to fourteen or so girls on the beach was absurd, given the reali of young women’s liv the perd, though was entirely plsible wh workg-class boys. Prot’s view of gayns would, by ntemporary standards, be nsired homophobic: he treats gay men, whom he lls “men-women, ” as sufferg om a formg syndrome.

MARCEL PROT’S LOST GAY LOVE STORI TO FALLY BE PUBLISHED

Yet, whatever fensive tap dancg past the police is at work here (and Prot was arrted at least once a male brothel), the portra of male homosexualy is meant to be tritely humane. The ia of the man-woman is not a rogatn of homosexualy but an explanatn of s normalcy: people, beg people, nta oppos wh themselv.

IN SEARCH OF THE LOST TIME OF A GAY JEWISH NOVELIST

Homosexualy is neher a licly archaic transgrsn, as was for Wil’s circle London, nor a damnable perversn. We are all double ourselv, he sisted—a formulatn that he took om Montaigne, who he knew was part Jewish and who he may have thought was homosexual. We also thk of Prot as an important gay novelist.

And we owe that, some sense, to Gi, who revealed the closeted Prot’s homosexualy their published rrponnce after Prot’s ath. “As a teenager this ed problems for his fay, not least his father, a profsor of hygiene, who like many of the day believed that such a worryg hab uld e homosexualy if left unchecked. I wouldn't have put this down as an LGBT book, will be tertg to see how he creeps homosexualy , as apparently he did, and if those parts of the book any of his secret is on show – as were.

Hoppo rms : "If you get as far as volume four, you n't possibly miss [the homosexual referenc].