Can You Be Gay Assass's Creed Odyssey? - Gaymg Magaze

Contents:

• CAN YOU BE GAY ASSASS’S CREED ODYSSEY?
• ASSASS’S CREED: ODYSSEY LETS YOU BE AS GAY AS YOU WANT
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

CAN YOU BE GAY ASSASS’S CREED ODYSSEY?

It's okay to be gay Assass's Creed Odyssey. Andrew Sean Greer’s edic novel Ls is a self-reflexive versn of the Odyssey, featurg a gay love story which the narrator and his subject merge to produce a postmorn homophrosyne that repulat the like-mdns of Odysss and Penelope.

An allive irony pervas Sean Andrew Greer’s Pulzer prize-wng novel Ls (2017): the Homeric Odysss, cky, cunng, and thls, a paradigm of heteronormative masculy, has morphed to Arthur Ls, ‘that crown prce of nocence’ (257) a hapls, self-doubtg, gay novelist. The send part nsirs how Greer rtag Odysss’ homeg to reveal s narratn by a male Penelope to whom Odysss has reunted his adventur, and th repulat the Homeric paradigm of homophrosyne, njugal likemd-ns.

He spends an eveng the pany of s anizer, Zohra (a fan of Ls’s first novel), but the gay man and the lbian, unlike Odysss and Calypso (dghter of Atlas), have no sexual tert each other, and drift apart, each longg for a lost lover. (29)Although Kalipso enjoys an enthiastic receptn, do not satisfy Ls’s gay dience. … It’s that you’re a bad gay.

ASSASS’S CREED: ODYSSEY LETS YOU BE AS GAY AS YOU WANT

The gay world. A man wash ashore on an island and has a gay affair for years. (144)As a mise-en-abyme, Kalipso reflects Odyssean them of the ame tale, although is, om the gay muny’s perspective, a disappotment.

’ The recursive stcture of the novel wh the novel suggts different levels of realy, and acrdgly that experienc n be amed and limed by thorial postmorn self-awarens is not only displayed by Ls’s ‘bad gay’ novel Kalipso, but also by his novel progrs, Swift, a send mise-en-abyme, also stctured as a gay Odyssey. Acrdg to the narrator, Swift is about:A man on a walkg tour of San Francis, and of his past, returng home after a seri of blows and disappotments (‘All you do is wre gay Ulyss, ’ said Freddy); a wistful poignant novel of a man’s hard life. Of broke, gay middle-age.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

’ After Ls’s fal droll misadventur Japan, a versn of Has where the transponr his rented r shrieks ‘almost Greek s fury’ like a harpy sent to punish Ls for beg ‘a bad gay’ (249), only one more chapter of Swift remas to be wrten, while only one more chapter of Ls remas to be read. The rrectn of the ‘bad gay’ novel is imment, but also unnny, sce occurs Ls’s life story. Nostos: narrators, folizers, and homophrosyne.

This episo Ls’s life story seems to replace the unsatisfactory endg of Kalipso (as his enunter wh Zohra praged) and recuperat s Odyssean tertext wh a good gay endg. The narratn of Ls’s homeg evok the Homeric ial of homophrosyne, an ial repulated and nsummated the Odyssean regnn scene. As Thomas Van Nortwick (1979: 272) suggts, the episo serv as a ‘rehearsal for the myster evolutn of homophrosyne Odyssey 18 and 19, ’ when Penelope, an extend rnn wh her now-regnized hband, displays a termatn and cunng equal to his.

11A symbolic and ncentrated exprsn of the homophrosyne between Penelope and Odysss is the famo sie (Od. ’ It reveals Penelope ternalizg the voyage and return of her hband, makg his trials her own by sharg the subject posn of the shipwrecked sailor, and thereby signifyg their homophrosyne. Furthermore the imprsn of likemd-ns almost immediately extends to storytellg: as Nancy Felson (1994: 63) remarks, Odysss and Penelope ‘enact’ homophrosyne as they lie on their marriage bed and enjoy a post-al exchange of Ls replit this likemd-ns by filterg the wanrer’s trials and return through the imagatn of the spoe who was at home, v a retrospective remappg of the tale and reveals further pots of ntact wh the Odyssey, specifilly the possibily of an thorial Penelope.