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.

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

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.

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

… It’s that you’re a bad gay. 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.