The Cric of Gay Dire - Boston Review

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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
• IN SEARCH OF THE LOST TIME OF A GAY JEWISH NOVELIST
• OBAMA WAS A COE-USG GAY HTLER, SAYS WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN HAWAIIAN CLASSMATE
• MARCEL PROT’S LOST GAY LOVE STORI TO FALLY BE PUBLISHED
• THE CRIC OF GAY DIRE

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

Ne lost stori by Marcel Prot, which the revered French thor is believed to have kept private bee of their “dacy”, are due to be published for the first time this tumn.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).

IN SEARCH OF THE LOST TIME OF A GAY JEWISH NOVELIST

He cid not to clu them.Quick 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. “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.”Luc Fraisse, a profsor at the Universy of Strasbourg, has annotated and eded the stori for the forthg volume, which ns to 176 pag and is tend to mark the centenary of Prot wng France’s most prtig lerary award, the Prix Gonurt, for À l’ombre s jn fill en flrs (Wh a Buddg Grove).“A qutn aris om the start: why did Prot disrd the texts om Pleasur, havg mentned them the ial summary?” Fraisse wr. “Whout doubt he nsired that bee of their dacy, they uld have offend a social i where strong tradnal morals prevailed.”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.“It’s therefore part, unr the veil of a transparent fictn, an timate diary of the wrer,” said Fraisse. “The awarens of homosexualy is experienced an exclively tragic way, as a curse.

OBAMA WAS A COE-USG GAY HTLER, SAYS WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN HAWAIIAN CLASSMATE

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].

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

At the time of wrg, Prot had no accepted notns of homosexualy as social inty to draw on. So, if we say (tentatively) that the character of Swann we see the forhadowg of the closeted secret liv of gay men, we might ask why the narrator, the boy Marcel, is so preoccupied wh Swann, his parent's iend and the man wh a secret other life? Certaly seems possible to view this first book as a d discsn of homosexualy.

Homosexualy wasn't illegal France Prot's time, but was still dangero to e out. Imagg Swann and others as takg part a gay narrative rais the stak all the gam they play. And if, as Hoppo tells , homosexual love is discsed more and more ankly later on, why would Prot feel the need to employ the kd of s that Marya50 has cracked for here?

His lovers n be both gay and straight.

THE CRIC OF GAY DIRE

Seeg Swann as an illtratn for a "gay" secret life, and takg him at face value as a heterosexual lover, aren't mutually exclive …Perhaps I'm tyg myself knots here.

Damnable s fake heterosexual voyrism, and s disparagg and dishont acunt of homosexualy.

André Gi also disliked the fact that Prot never acknowledged his own homosexualy prt, and that he disparaged homosexualy his fictn. At the same time that Prot was eager to make love to other young men, he was equally termed to avoid the label "homosexual". Years later he would tell André Gi that one uld wre about homosexualy even at great length, so long as one did not ascribe onelf.