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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.

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Abstract. 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 me * gay romance odyssey *

(29)Although Kalipso enjoys an enthiastic receptn, do not satisfy Ls’s gay dience. … 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.

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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. ’ 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.

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