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And so, havg reached the very bottom of the barrel marked “Marcel Prot,” the scrapg ntu, even unto the spltered wood. The ual n of a famo thor’s remas is more or ls set: first the (disillng) bgraphy, then the (surprisgly mundane, money-mad) letters, and fally the (pafully naked) diari, which erotic obssns that seem cur and h lerary prose look mechanilly obssive daily rerd, as wh Kenh Tynan and John Cheever. What after is mostly amic mentary.</p><p class="paywall">But wh the bgraphy, the letters, and the journals long the rearview mirror, the popular sendary works on <a href=">Prot</a> ntue to appear manic numbers. <em>Anythg</em> Protian, seems, gets published now. Not long ago, we were given a book ma up solely of his sperately pole, quelo letters to his upstairs neighbors one of his last apartment buildgs, on the Boulevard Hssmann, plag about the noise—and soundg exactly like a classic S. J. Perelman sual. In the past fifteen years or so, certaly sce the dawn of the new century, the huge succs of Ala Botton’s “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">How Prot Can Change Your Life</a>” has been followed by a ndid <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">book</a> on Prot’s sex life (by his Amerin bgrapher, William C. Carter); the <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">memoirs</a> of his Swedish valet (also eded by Carter); a <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">study</a>, by the Aun bgrapher Richard Davenport-H, of Prot’s fal days, at the Rz and the Majtic; Benjam Taylor’s <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">study</a> of Prot’s life as a distctly Jewish one; the first fully annotated versns of “Swann’s Way” (both <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">by Carter</a> and <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">by Lydia Davis</a>); Clive Jam’s long verse mentary “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Gate of Lilacs</a>”; and a <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">graphic-novel</a> versn of “Swann’s Way,” not to mentn an album by the talented Rsian-French sisters lled the Milste Duo, “The Vtil Sonata,” voted to the real-life ndidat for the mil phrase that entangled Swann’s heart and doomed his life. That’s doubtls not even half the harvt. The books are often illtrated wh the tensy of relig tracts. In one, we are given a tailed diagram of the apartment wh the rk-led room where Prot spent his reclive late years. (The room’s origal terr n be found at the Mée Carnavalet, the mm of the history of Paris.) “Lost” works appear. Jt last month, Gallimard, Paris, published “L Soixante-quze Fillets,” an early, more directly tobgraphil overture, long thought to have vanished, of them that he would later velop pth. And now, English, arriv a fearsomely slenr book, “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Myster Corrponnt</a>,” ne stori, mostly agmentary, mostly unpublished, that have only recently been redisvered, appearg as somethg between juvenilia and a sketchbook.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">All this work attts to the reputatn of the most often attempted, most rarely summed, of all mountao morn books, Prot’s multivolume “À la Recherche du Temps Perdu,” which, first Englished as “Remembrance of Thgs Past,” is now routely more severely Frenchified as “In Search of Lost Time.” (That there are passnate bat about the varyg mers of his translators and of the tl is part of the general Protian effect.) Why some wrers get this kd of attentn—rooted enpassg appete rather than mere admiratn—and some do not is hard to know and tertg to ntemplate. Chekhov, born a earlier, is a wrer of siar stature, and his plays are genuely popular. But only specialists bate his translators, and there are no books lvg to the origals of his characters, or providg recip for Chekhovian bli, or explag how Chekhov n change your life, or prentg photographs of his timat. Prot, by ntrast, is a sort of improbable Belle Époque Tolkien, the maker of a world wh passports and maps and secret s, to which many seek entry.</p><p class="paywall">A wrer’s abily to duce this kd of fanaticism—ls cult stat than thedral stat, where we expect long l, and hope to be improved by our vis—is still myster. Prot, even after he published the first volume of his great work, 1913, would not have seemed a natural for such a role. He is, after all, the wrer who put the long “longur”—whose subject is not war and peace, or the makg and breakg of a dynasty, or, as wh Joyce, the history of lerature implanted an urban day. His terra is, rather, the strangled lov and pas of a small, fashnable circle, wh much of the novel spent wh the narrator gog back and forth to beach rorts and feelg thgs, and many more pag, particularly the middle books, where he simply tak tras, feels jealo, then feels ls jealo, then more.</p><p class="paywall">The peripheral Prot may persist as part of our search for a skeleton key to all the others—a way si. There are at least six Marcel Prots to study, and, though we’d like to say that each feeds the others, the tth is that they exist separate, sometim bafflg strata. There’s the Perd Prot, the Touloe-Ltrec-like pater of the high life of the Belle Époque, who offers an unmatched picture both of ridg the Bois and of visg the brothels near the Opéra; and the Philosophil Prot, whose thoughts on the nature of time supposedly rived om the ias of Henri Bergson and are argued to have paralleled those of Este. There’s the Psychologil Prot, whose analysis of human motiv—above all, of love and jealoy—is the real livg re of his book; and the “Perverse” Prot (as the ement scholar Antoe Compagnon refers to him), who was among the first French thors to wre que openly about homosexualy. Then there is the Polil Prot, the Jewish wrer who diagrammed the flt le that the Dreyf Affair first cracked French society, and that the war pulled apart. Fally, there’s the Poetic Prot, the <em>pathétique</em> Prot who wr the sentenc and fds the phras, and whose twilight tensy and vlet-tted charm make his Big Book one of the few that rears urge on iends rather than merely force on stunts.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><asi class="PersistentAsiWrapper-VGrR daRVRt persistent-asi" style="posn:absolute;top:to;height:to" data-ttid="PersistentAsiWrapper"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="bax0hm"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></asi></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="l9fps"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bDyAMU body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">For all the speculative profundy that n be disvered the vast annotative lerature surroundg Prot, rangg om <a href=">Samuel Beckett</a>’s bleak, sctable summary to Roland Barth’s stctural appreciatn, Prot is least tertg for his philosophil pth. The profound bs Prot are the most monplace, while the monplace bs—the scriptns, the evotn of place, the characterizatns, the jok, the observatns, and, most of all, the love stori—are the most profound. His is the most ant tract of atheticism ever attempted, and unrstandg why has been the most succsful at makg nverts is the key to all the other nted Prots.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">The son of a half-Jewish Parisian grand-bourgeois fay, Prot was known, before the 1913 publitn of “Swann’s Way,” as a malic, amg, slightly absurd society boy, wh a vaguely pathetic lerary hobby. He had wrten some standard-issue athetic says and stori, which no one read, and had translated Rk’s study of the Amiens thedral. (He was an veterate Anglophile: his favore novelist was Gee Elt, and his favore novel “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Mill on the Floss</a>.”) A charmg society hanger-on, he was admired by his close iends for his lerary ditn and the extraordary flow of his letters—which are effortlsly parenthetil, slidg to digrsn and back to the ma pot wh the skill of a rally driver dippg and out of traffic at a hundred an hour. None of them, however, thought him much more than a dilettante.</p><p class="paywall">The newly published stori llected “The Myster Corrponnt” feel wispy and nsequential, but are fascatg as clu to Prot’s limatns, which, before 1913, seemed far more formidable than his talents. The stori were wrten the eighteen-neti, when he was his twenti, and then locked away a drawer while he worked on his unpublished novel, “Jean Santil,” and then on his masterwork. The tle story, at least, was hidn for an obv reason: ’s a tale of lbian love. A timid, wealthy woman disvers that the thrillg love note she has received—which sets off a fantasy of makg love to a soldier, plete wh sword and spurs—was actually wrten by her clost woman iend. 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 sir.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">It’s strikg how out of foc the stori seem: they have a trancelike rhythm that mak events uneventful, and an absence of narrative ph. Readg the lost tal, one rells that, although none of Prot’s ntemporari doubted his telligence, they did doubt his abily to turn his lerary bent to somethg solid. In the stori, one se what worried them: there’s every sign of a natural wrer, but no sign at all of an <em>thor</em>.</p><p class="paywall">When the first volume of “In Search of Lost Time” appeared, a year before the Great War, the shock of s excellence was ptured a lic exchange wh André Gi, the mag of the Parisian lerary scene. Apologizg for havg passed on “Swann’s Way” for his <em>Nouvelle Revue Française,</em> Gi offered an explanatn almost more sultg than the origal rejectn: “For me you were still the man who equented the ho of Mm X. and Z., the man who wrote for the <em>Figaro</em>. I thought of you, shall I nfs , as ‘<em>du côté chez Verdur</em>’; a snob, a man of the world, and a dilettante—the worst possible thg for our review.” Prot, who had money, had offered to help subsidize the publitn, which, Gi fumbl to expla, only ma seem a dub effort at buyg a reputatn. (That year, Gi nfid his journal his doubts that any Jewish wrer uld tly master the “virtu” of the French tradn.)</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall">Prot rpond wh the most betiful fuck-you letter lerary history, suavely pretendg that Gi’s belatedly flatterg letter ma up for all the prev sults: “Had there been no rejectn, no repeated rejectns by the N.R.F., I should never have had your letter. . . . The joy of receivg your letter fely surpass any I should have had at beg published by the N.R.F. . . . How I should like to be able to give someone I loved as much pleasure as you have given me.” Gi, no fool, ma a firm offer to publish the rt of the novel, which the <em>Nouvelle Revue</em> did, right through to s pletn.</p><p class="paywall">The exchange unrl several aspects of Prot as a phenomenon. First, Prot land on his ntemporari wh somethg of the same revelatory shock that he livers to . Perhaps only the abpt celebry of <a href=">Karl Ove Knsgaard</a> has had the same effect our time. What ma the metamorphosis? The unimagably large space between the Prot of “The Myster Corrponnt” and the Prot of “Swann’s Way” li his learng to tst the meanrg nature of his own telligence. He found a voice by hearg his own. The one thg that Prot’s mature lerary manner is <em>not</em> is mannered. It was as natural and unimped as Mark Twa’s. His md moved exactly as his sentenc do, and his gift was to be able to trace s movements whout beg halted by other people’s lerary l.</p><p class="paywall">But the exchange wh Gi also remds of a ls high-md tth: that Prot was part of the be mon of the Fbourg Sat-Germa, and that his enthiasm for the high life—ll snobbery, as Gi did—was unmistakable. Part of the appeal of the novel is the era’s glamour. Swann go to rever om his jealoi at the still extant swank rtrant Lapéroe; when the narrator realiz that “ho, roads, avenu are as fugive, alas, as the years,” is the high season the Bois Boulogne, the most exactgly landsped park Paris. Prot had nventnal Parisian hte-bourgeois tast of the time, om dner the Rz garn to sexual olics the Right Bank brothels. He wanted the Prix Gonurt (got ), the Légn d’Honnr (got ), and membership the Adémie Française (uldn’t get ). Along wh everythg else he did that was more amilly rpectable, he offered a picture of a particularly betiful place and perd the world’s history.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">Prot ont-loads his novel wh his philosophy of time. One of the oddi is that s most famo cint happens wh the first dozen pag, and is, nohels, isolated om the rt: the narrator (Protians hghtily rist intifyg him wh Prot himself, or referrg to him as Marcel, though he obvly is) eats the cmbs of a malee dipped lime-blossom tea and is sudnly thst back to his childhood at Combray. (The town was based on Illiers, an hour outsi Paris, though later volum Prot quietly moved Combray much farther north and east, so that uld participate the battl of the Great War.) His premise is that everythg remas si ourselv, cludg the past, not jt schematic outle but s full sensory elaboratn. The ltle smells and sounds are there along wh the big trmas and events. But, as rears may not rell, the memory event isn’t the unbidn associatn of a sensory clue wh a sudnly materializg memory. On the ntrary, the event is the rult of an effortful procs often met wh failure:</p><blockquote class="BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-SdiGL jPeLne paywall blockquote-embed"><div class="BlockquoteEmbedContent-RbGs gmbtPx blockquote-embed__ntent"><p>Will ultimately reach the clear surface of my nscns, this memory, this old, ad moment which the magism of an intil moment has travelled so far to importune, to disturb, to raise up out of the very pths of my beg? I nnot tell. Now I feel nothg; has stopped, has perhaps sunk back to s darkns, om which who n say whether will ever rise aga? Ten tim over I mt say the task, mt lean down over the abyss. And each time the wardice that ters om every difficult task, every important enterprise, has urged me to leave the thg alone, to drk my tea and to thk merely of the worri of today and my hop for tomorrow, which n be brood over palsly.</p></div></blockquote><p class="paywall">Prot’s celebrated acunt of time’s relativy, dancg above or outsi experience, though persuasively tailed, is not terribly origal. It’s ltle different om the one that Shakpeare had long before put Rosald’s mouth: “Time travels divers pac wh divers persons.” Its apparent likens to Este’s theory of special relativy has been much promoted, recently by the French physicist Thiblt Damour, his book “Once Upon Este.” Prot do seem to have bee polely aware of Este, though rather as a ntemporary wrer might be of strg theory—as a popular metaphor or two drawn om var newspaper wrps. But the siari are strictly limed. Este’s sight was not that “everythg is relative” but the oppose: his paradox of time are really paradox of timekeepg, and are the nsequence of his troductn of an absolute, fixed standard—the speed of light. A revival of Sol Invict worship was as reasonable an aftershock of Este’s theori as iatnal relativism. In any se, a great novel uld be wrten that timat and parallels Este, and a bad one uld be wrten that timat and parallels Este. Prot’s book mak s own light.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">The Philosophil Prot’s view of time is tied to his larger view of the primacy of md— which what we image matters more than what we see—and is this view that shas over, more profably, to the Psychologil Prot. We thk that we are livg the world, he sists, when we are livg only our mds. Aga, the first volume sets the template, oft repeated later. Charl Swann—the Jewish man-about-town, wele every livg room high, low, and middle—thks that he is sperately love wh the urtan Otte Crécy; his eventual marriage to Otte giv him the betiful child Gilberte, the first volume’s heroe, but dimish his life. The narrator’s ol analysis of motive (rmed by Swann’s retrospective regrets) reveals that Swann has merely projected his obssns onto Otte. He is love wh the face of one of the Botticelli women on the walls of the Siste Chapel; he is love wh the agment of mic om the Vtil Sonata (probably a melody of Sat-Saëns’s) that he associat wh her. He is triangulated by his own tensi.</p><p class="paywall">Above all, he is love wh his own love, wh thgs ma his own md, and when ardor ols he is dazed to disver that the great passn of his life had been for a woman he didn’t like at all, a woman “who was not my type.” This, much more than the malee memory, is the real Protian turn. Jealoy, the key emotn Prot, is self-generated; we go huntg for mors or imag of our beloved entangled wh another, to reh the pa that has bee synonymo wh love. 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jealoy, like Swann’s, are all women, and has long been accepted that they are almost all molled on men. What Prot memorialized as livg “ the shadow of young girls flower” was more like luxuriatg the shadow of young boys on the make. 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 Agostelli.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Prot 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. (And his timat <em>were</em> often boys—sixteen and seventeen. We are vastly more tolerant of sexual difference today, but we police age differenc far more aggrsively.)</p><p class="paywall">Yet there is nothg humanly unnvcg about Alberte as an vented woman, or about the rg of girls on the beach as girls. That’s partly bee Prot, utterly specific about the trici of the psyche, is cleverly unspecific about physil typ: there are hardly any curvaceo bosoms or round bottoms, as Zola, jt an undifferentiated paradise of pure sensatn. On the beach, valy and exuberance are Prot’s hallmarks of attractn: “fe bodi, fe legs, fe hips, wholome, serene fac,” as he talogu them. “Bloomg cheeks” occur over and over Prot as a sirable attribute, wh a Nabokovian pun French as English.</p><p class="paywall">The anthropology of “sexual versn” domat the later volum, particularly “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sodom and Gomorrah</a>,” wh s overheard hip flirt of attractn the urtyard between the former tailor Jupien and the baron Charl. 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. 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. Agast the old Platonic ia that humans are longg for their missg half, the “Perverse” Prot’s pot is that they posss already. Homosexualy is neher a licly archaic transgrsn, as was for Wil’s circle London, nor a damnable perversn. It jt is. 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.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="duz5ju"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bDyAMU body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">There is, however, a tear wh the Matrix. As the strangled new stori “The Myster Corrponnt” remd , Prot is often strange on the subject of lbianism. In the belmed Alberte volum—which Prot, as Compagnon remds , enlarged late the game—Prot’s anxiety about Alberte’s possible lbian lov is, as Carter suggts, an extensn of Prot’s anxiety about Agostelli’s affairs wh women. The disda that Prot shows for lbian lovers seems the one unrolved spot his transposns of sir. His lbians are actually straight women who might sce his own male lover, reprented as a girl. Prot himself has a hard time keepg all the reflectns foc this hoe of mirrors.</p><p class="paywall">Even Prot’s dabblg sexual paraphilia is touched by his peculiarly expansive kd of holistic humanism. He is reported, wh what tth is hard to say, to have had a taste for sadistic sexual ruals— one particularly grotque acunt, brgg himself to climax by watchg rats forced to fight wh one another his prence. Yet the pag of his book the dramatized relatnship between celty and tenrns is so nstant that is no surprise that one might bee a mirror image of the other. In Prot, fetishized sir are not seen as tsns to an otherwise healthy persona but as naturally paired wh one. It is entirely Protian to image that the more kdns the more kk, the more appete for licy the more sire for huiatn or fetishized savagery. In the last volume of the novel, Prot has his hyper-refed Baron Charl, after payg to be beaten a brothel, prott that his punisher was not of sufficiently humble origs—not an thentic bte but only a pretend one. The joke isn’t that Charl is ridiculo wantg to be beaten by a real villa; the absurdy li only how quixotic he be the pursu of that sire.</p><p class="paywall">For Prot, there was no hypocrisy the exquise athete who wants to be roughed up or even that of the fay man who achiev climax by cursg his fay (a specific se known to him). Ined, if one wanted a scientific ördate for Prot’s visn, one might fd not Este but Jam Clerk Maxwell’s theori of electromagism, wh one sensual field perpetually flippg to s oppose by a fixed law of oscillatn. The tth of the battery is, for Prot, the tth of humankd; mt have two pol or n rry no charge.</p><p class="has-dropp has-dropp__lead-standard-headg paywall">Today, the most prent of Prots is, evably, a Polil Prot. Prot, beg both gay and Jewish, participated the two dissint cultur that are at the heart of so much mornist art. Benjam Taylor’s book, the Yale “Jewish Liv” seri, do the bt job of narratg Prot’s self-disvery as a Jew, as double-sid as his other unrstandgs, and particularly his surprisgly aggrsive role supportg the wrongly prosecuted Capta Aled Dreyf. Prot, who, though the son of a Jewish woman, was raised the Catholic Church, was astonishgly urageo durg the <a href=">Dreyf Affair</a>. He had no personal centive to take such an outspoken stand, and he uld w no pots wh the leftist opposn, sce he was regard as a illy margal figure by the people he admired. (His signature on one Dreyf petn, proudly offered, wasn’t at first even reprted the papers.)</p><p class="paywall">Taylor sists that this was a genue act of pure prciple. Prot regnized the jtice and found tolerable. There were assiated Jews—Theodor Herzl, most famoly—who beme “sgle inty” Jews durg the Dreyf Affair. Prot was not one of them. But the word “tellectual,” our current sense, was vented then, for the Dreyfards, and that was what he beme. He began to thk of himself as a republin tellectual, a cizen wh a pen and a nscience, as much as the athete he had been.</p><p class="paywall">Though the Great War cshed Prot’s Paris, the Dreyf Affair is the central exterr act of “In Search of Lost Time.” Jt as Swann realiz that the Otte for whom he sacrificed his life is an imagary creature, so the narrator realiz that the aristocrats of the Fbourg Sat-Germa are his own imagative projectn. The magic that had clung even to the name Guermant prov to be as illory as Otte’s Botticelli ra. The De Guermant’s anti-Semic rant agast the Dreyfards is not jt vile but vulgar, the kd of thg you would expect to read a cheap tabloid. Prot had always expected his aristocrats to thk stupidly; he jt didn’t expect so many to behave so shabbily. The rult was a revelatn like Swann’s: turns out that they had never really been his type.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p class="paywall">Yet all other Prots turn back, fally, to the Poetic Prot. We hear him clearly on the Milste album; the Sat-Saëns melody, we regnize at once the world Prot has njured, s vlet pangs and wav of emotn. As he wrote a letter, “The sential purpose of mic is to awaken the myster pths of our soul (which lerature, patg, and sculpture nnot exprs).” The most mil pag of wrg that exist any language are those the sectn of “Swann’s Way” lled “Place-Nam: The Name,” voted to the romance of the adolcent Marcel and Gilberte, the dghter of Swann and Otte. Comg after the romance of the adults, repulat all of s them, though a tenrly ic register:</p><blockquote class="BlockquoteEmbedWrapper-sc-SdiGL jPeLne paywall blockquote-embed"><div class="BlockquoteEmbedContent-RbGs gmbtPx blockquote-embed__ntent"><p>Doubtls the var reasons which ma me so impatient to see her would have appeared ls urgent to a grown man. As life go on, we acquire such adrons the cultivatn of our pleasur, that we ntent ourselv wh the pleasure we rive om thkg of a woman, as I thought of Gilberte, whout troublg ourselv to ascerta whether the image rrponds to the realy. . . . But at the perd when I was love wh Gilberte, I still believed that Love did really exist outsi ourselv.</p></div></blockquote><p class="paywall">The book dispels this illn of love, only after havg first realized perfectly here. The adolcent romance is, to be sure, very French—the two are young enough to play children’s gam the Champs-Élysé each afternoon, yet old enough to engage a memorable moment of ottage. But what one rells om “Place-Nam: The Name” is the Mozartian sound through which the miature love affair of the two children perfectly transpos—as when mic we have first heard on flute and piano to hly revoiced, on an origal-stment rerdg, by rerr and harpsichord—the adult affair of Otte and Swann. It is a tonal triumph.</p><p class="paywall">Prot has been lled a novelist of manners, meang a stunt of mor, of social ruals, but he is also a novelist of manners another sense, a wrer to whom urty is of exceptnally, almost supremely, high value. He admired the French aristocrats’ gift for makg awkward moments easier—he even serts to the book abstract tails of good manners, like the Prcs Parme’s admirg the narrator’s “Amerin” bbers, meant for bad weather, which her footmen disda. (“Wh those on, you will have nothg to fear even if starts snowg aga and you have a long way to go,” the Prcs says. “You’re pennt of the weather.”)</p><p class="paywall">This pattern of French manners, so different om the Brish upper-class hab of creatg maximum awkwardns to display stat, is not smeticized. The Duchs Guermant will soon blow past Swann’s nfsn that he is dyg wh her dismissive reply: “You mt be jokg. . . . Come and have lunch.” But manners matter, still. The most tellg of the peripheral Prots newly on hand might be found that strange volume of letters to his upstairs neighbors (translated by Davis), where he filters his ornery nrasthenia through the sieve of good manners, nstantly sendg gifts and praise along wh his plats. “Madame: I had orred the flowers for you and I am spair that they are g on a day when agast all expectatn I feel so ill that I would like to ask you for silence tomorrow Saturday,” he wr. “Yet as this requt is no way njoed wh the flowers, g them to lose all their agrance as disterted mark of rpect and to bristle wh nasty thorns, I would like even more not to ask you for this silence.”</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="q01up"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="hrkkxd"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bDyAMU body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">One fds Prot here pure, and necsarily ic, form. Courty is edy: s elaborate phemisms work like the slammg doors a Fey farce, alicizg the elaborate work of ways which we <em>jt</em> avoid hurtg one another’s feelgs. For Prot, manners make humankd tolerable, as the one way to pe our own evable egotisms. We fall love wh ourselv, and the only way out is not through others—the standard ethil sistence—but through art, which nnects wh others a kd of psychic work of solipsisms. Part of Prot’s humanism li his abily to lote the world exclively between our ears, whout supposg that s rince there is necsarily to be regretted.</p><p class="paywall">Prot’s still peerls origal translator, C. K. Stt Moncrieff, has been mocked, by Nabokov, among others, for makg Prot’s tl falsely Shakpearean: “Remembrance of Thgs Past” stead of the direct “In Search of Lost Time.” And yet this was a felico accint of taste, sce there is somethg genuely Shakpearean Prot’s abily to extend his sympathy to every rner of his ventn, even to people he fds ridiculo (like the Verdurs) or rpted (like Charl). They, too, have their story. Perhaps is the wholens of his humanism that explas why—spe the novel’s often bleak and disillned import—the happit hours of many rears’ liv, cludg this one, have been spent readg him. “What a lot of pa there was all the way through,” an Iris Murdoch character m about Prot. “So how was that the whole thg uld vibrate wh such a pure joy?” John Updike, too, g to Prot at a time of his own Christian doubts, found him the necsary remedy, the only credible morn relig novelist. There is happs to be found his fatalism.</p><p class="paywall">If Prot, for Updike the God-hnted neteen-fifti, was the last Christian poet, we may see him now more secular terms, as a wrer who, perversely, sought sereny not tachment and self-removal but attachment and reattachment—a monk wh a metropolan monastery. “Be here now” is the mystic’s sistence. “<em>Don’t</em> be here now” is Prot’s material motto: be there then, aga. Enjoy, emote, repeat, remember: there are worse signs for livg. ♦</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="xqiuun"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 PaywallInleBarrierWhWrapperGrid-fyrGfS kLQIUk grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="body body__le-barrier article__body"><div class="ntaer ntaer--body"><div class="ntaer--body-ner"><asi class="PaywallInleBarrierWrapper-iBnuqk lfXXa-D" data-ttid="PaywallInleBarrierWrapper"><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--paywall-le-barrier" role="prentatn" aria-live="pole" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--paywall-le-barrier"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></asi></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ContentWrapperGrid-fvkmBv brYtrA grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="body body__ntaer"><div class="ntaer ntaer--body"><div class="ntaer--body-ner"></div></div></div></div></div></div></article><div class="ContentFooterWrapper-jVNdRG dTJkpP ArticlePageContentFooterGrid-ccsXYy eMZRHU article-body__footer"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><footer class="ContentFooterMagazeDisclaimer-gzKAqo iZIuUU" data-ttid="MagazeDisclaimerWrapper">Published the prt edn of the <a href="/magaze/2021/05/10" data-reactroot="">May 10, 2021</a>, issue, wh the headle “Peripheral Prot.”</footer></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="ContributorsWrapper-eNpWFu GWFsc ntributors" data-ttid="Contributors"><div class="ContributorBWrapper-bnVHbt gMon"><div class="ContributorBAvatar-bIGTqf eMWbvj"><a href="/ntributors/adam-gopnik"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></picture></span></a></div><div class="ContributorBContent-ubQdr jZTSSi"><div class="ContributorBHear-ledood XOIEx"></div><div class="ContributorBB-fBolsO giFhKz"><a href="/ntributors/adam-gopnik">Adam Gopnik</a>, a staff wrer, has been ntributg to The New Yorker sce 1986. 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hugo es gay

Entre 27.000 sacerdot tólis, no hay uno solo que té ejerciendo la profión religsa y haya renocido públimente ser gay; s embargo, los vtigador l tema timan que hay un número nsirable ellos.

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CóMO SCUBRIR DISCRETAMENTE SI ALGUIEN GAY

Cómo scubrir discretamente si alguien gay. La sexualidad una persona un tema muy personal, por lo que importante rpetar su privacidad. De todas formas, quizás quieras saber si gay porque tás terado en varla a... * hugo es gay *

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WHY VIEWERS SHOULDN’T ASSUME LOVE ISLAND’S HUGO IS GAY – REGARDLS OF WHAT HAPPENS THE VILLA

One Closer wrer explas why we shouldn't assume Love Island's Hugo is gay simply bee he hasn't found a romantic nnectn. Read more at Closer. * hugo es gay *

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HABLAR POR HABLAR. HUGO GAY Y Tá ENAMORADO UN HETEROSEXUAL

Theo and Hugo sets a high bar for movi about morn gay life. * hugo es gay *

Él dice que no le importa lo que digan: “Lo que quiero marr la diferencia” te que un país tan aficnado a hacer gala puranismos, hay un pueblo en don son muchas las faias que bn a un homosexual o padro btizo los niños. Y sgular porque, te año, su tolerancia tuvo una dimensión tan sóla o histó 18 enero, los tipuqueños eligieron o all a Hugo Salas, un salvadoreño que, s ant ser proclamado ndidato, se había nfado homosexual y portador l m spués las eleccn municipal, Salas más que gobernante. D el ampl pat su sa, ella terpreta que “ser gay smera, porque Hugo Salas una figura públi, bería dar el ejemplo a los jóven, pero que lo que ha hecho querer imponer ley a la Iglia” dice que en plena mpaña proselista Salas arribó a la parroquia San Nilás Tolento y s mutarse se prentó n el entonc párro, Leo Dan Hernánz.

Que cuando vivían en Estados Unidos, su papá apagaba el televisor, cuando en el nal Univisión, él, su hijo, salía diciendo que quería ser all su pueblo, a par tenerlo todo para no 1990, Hugo no se nsiraba homosexual. Nun recibió una explición oficial l partido, pero él cree que las razon l no fueron su homosexualidad y su diagnósti mé 2006, su médi le dijo que tenía salud suficiente para tolerar una ndidatura a all n el Partido Conciliación Nacnal (PCN).

Augt lui fera asi déuvrir la nceptn l'homosexualé qui sera celle s anné à attendant, Hugo do traverser s étap délit: son g-out près s parents, s premiers émois amourx, s tentativ « guérison » réalisera également qu'Augt, en 2021, n'échappe pas non pl plétement à c qutnnements et difficultés, en dép s progrès majrs effectués en term dros LGBT.

HUGO T GAY

Dans sa BD « Hugo t gay », Hugu Barthe no replonge dans l angoiss pré-g out d’un jne homo en proie à s émotns vlent. * hugo es gay *

Plongez-vo dans la ban ssée Hugo t gay  Hugu Barthe et (re)visez l angoiss pré-g out d’un jne homo en proie à s émotns vlent: pr la différence, crate qu’on le sache et anticipatn du g out. Cette ban ssée se présente me un enchaînement saynèt qui montre le quotidien l’homophobie ordaire, l terrogatns et angoiss d’un llégien homosexuel, la déuverte l’homosexualé à s différents gs out.

HUGO T GAY : LA DéUVERTE SA SEXUALé G OUT

"Señor, cúrame todas las tenncias homosexual", supliba el tudiante, que había llegado a la pal l tado Sao Plo dos años las primeras leccn que recibió cuando gró en un semar dcano en 1994, Rafael stió el po una ntradicción superable en las reglas la Iglia: durante años, s lír habían dicho que la homosexualidad "ntraria a la ley natural" y que los hombr n "tenncias homosexual fuertemente arraigadas" no puen ser polémi documento l Vatino que rechaza las nuevas formas intidad géneroLa "preocupación" l papa Francis por los homosexual en el cleroPara Rafael, el tormento mentó spués los retiros anual su semar, en el terr Sao Plo. Frente su diencia semaristas, los sacerdot reforzaron la ia que la homosexualidad era una "enfermedad", un "uto la acción l mal" ia tener que "curarse" persiguió a Rafael durante mucho tiempo.

EL ACTOR HUGO SILVA 'PILLADO' EN UNA SUACN PROMETIDA...... EN UNA FITA GAY.

En Estados Unidos, po más 10 han hablado públimente sobre su orientación embargo, docenas sacerdot e vtigador brasileños sobre el tema timan que el número homosexual entre los religsos l país signifitivo. Curas, dor l sacerdoc y adémis que hicieron entars para te reportaje timan que, los hombr en el clero, al menos un 30% son sacerdote gay l tado Ceará le dijo a BBC News Brasil que, en su orn religsa l norte l país, "al menos un 80%" s legas tienen a orientación.

HUGO GARCíA: "NO TENGO NADA NTRA LOS GAYS, PERO ME GTAN LAS CHIS"

Y un vtigador que tudia en un monaster tóli en el norte l país dice que el "90% l clero gay" sacerdot y semaristas homosexual c tados brasileños ardaron partir s historias, a lo largo un m, para te reportaje BBC News Brasil. Tendría que abandonar la parroquia que dirige hoy, en el terr Bahía, n "una bolsa ropa vieja", unos pos cientos real en su cuenta banria y s tener ia qué hacer spué la imagen, Getty ImagPie foto, Según los expertos en el tema, hay un número nsirable sacerdot homosexual en la Iglia tó gay en el fuego czado En los últimos años, el bate sobre cómo bería lidiar la Iglia n la homosexualidad entre s filas ha 2013, al rponr una pregunta sobre la fluencia los sacerdot gay en el Vatino, el papa Francis dijo su famosa ase, "¿Quién soy yo para juzgar? ", algo que llenó peranza a los tólis año siguiente, en el Sínodo sobre la Faia, el Papa hizo una referencia directa a los "don y cualidas" los homosexual y preguntó si la Iglia los "podría ager" aparte no logró el número necar votos los obispos para aparecer en el documento fal la rnión, pero fue recibido o una nueva forma abordar el reacción en los sector tólis tradicnal fue quien señala que el tento una mayor apertura habría fluido en una mpaña ntra el Papa que se v agravada por la acación que Francis encubrió o toleró el abo sexual menor por el exrnal tadouninse Theodore E.

Según Viganò, te gpo abogaría por dar más por al clero homosexual y encubriría sos docenas tuds llevados a bo en vars país nun han enntrado una relación entre ser gay y abar sexualmente niños.

INSI HALSTON’S DTCTIVE REAL-LIFE RELATNSHIP WH VICTOR HUGO“THAT VENEZUELAN LL BOY WAS HIS DOWNFALL,” ANDRé LEON TALLEY RECENTLY SAID OF HUGO, WHOSE RELATNSHIP WH THE SIGNER IS CENTRAL TO NETFLIX’S HALSTON. “HE WAS A GRIFTER WHO CLUNG ON LIKE A PARASE, LIKE A BARNACLE ON A SHIP.”BY JULIE MILLERMAY 14, 2021FROM RON GALELLA COLLECTN/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVESOME BLAME SIGNER HALSTON’S EPIC FALL—OM A SUPERSTAR EMPIRE BUILR TO A MAN FIRED OM HIS OWN BRAND—ON DGS, STUD 54 EXCS, AND BAD BS CISNS. OTHERS BLAME VICTOR HUGO, THE VENEZUELAN SEX WORKER HALSTON MET 1972, DATED FOR OVER A , AND FOLLOWED DOWN A PATH OF RECKLS STCTN.HALSTON, THE SUBJECT OF RYAN MURPHY’S EPONYMO NEW LIMED SERI STARRG EWAN MCGREGOR THE TLE ROLE, HAD BOYIENDS BEFORE HUGO. THE MOST NOTABLE OF THEM WAS ED AT (PLAYED ONSCREEN BY SULLIVAN JON), A HANDSOME MENSWEAR BUYER MCGREGOR’S HALSTON PICKS UP WH THE FIRST FIVE MUT OF THE SERI A MEET-CUTE RIPPED ALMOST DIRECTLY OM REAL LIFE. BUT WHEN THAT RELATNSHIP FIZZLED, ACRDG TO SIMPLY HALSTON—THE STEVEN GA BGRAPHY ON WHICH NETFLIX’S SERI IS BASED—THE SIGNER TOOK TO LLG RTS. AS GA WR:HE WOULD PERHAPS ORR THEM BOTH A STEAK AND A BAKED POTATO LIVERED UP, THEN TAKE THEM TO BED AND SHOW THEM THE DOOR. JOE EULA, THE FASHN ILLTRATOR AND ONE OF HALSTON’S CLOST NFIDANTS, TOOK TO LLG THIS PRACTICE “DIAL-A-STEAK, DIAL-A-DICK,” WHICH HALSTON THOUGHT WAS HYSTERILLY FUNNY. ONE NIGHT 1972, THE YOUNG MAN WHO SHOWED UP AT HALSTON’S APARTMENT OM THE LL-BOY SERVICE CHANGED HIS LIFE.THE 24-YEAR-OLD TOLD HALSTON THAT HIS NAME WAS VICTOR HUGO—A PUN ON HIS ANATOMY, RATHER THAN AN HOMAGE TO THE FRENCH WRER AND POET RPONSIBLE FOR L MISéRABL. (“BELIEVE ME, HE WASN’T READG FRENCH LERATURE,” SNIPED FORMER VOGUE EDOR ANDRé LEON TALLEY A RECENT TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORK TIM.)“IT WAS PURE LT. I THK HALSTON HAD A LIFE THAT WAS BARREN OF ROMANCE AND TENRNS,” GA TOLD VANY FAIR. HALSTON RIVED WARMTH OM HIS IENDSHIPS WH WOMEN LIKE LIZA MNELLI AND ELSA PERETTI; HIS ATTRACTN TO HUGO, GA THEORIZED TO LOGO, WAS MORE PLITED. “HALSTON LIKED BEG HUIATED AND HAVG THE SHOCK VALUE OF HAVG VICTOR AROUND,” HE SAID. “IT WAS A WHOLE OTHER SI TO HALSTON…. HALSTON LIKED TO BE ON THE SHOCKG END OF THGS. VICTOR WOULD SHOW UP AT STUD 54 WEARG A HOSE OVER HIS DICK. AND HE PISSED AND ME ON NVAS FOR ANDY WARHOL…. VICTOR ALSO END UP BEG ILL AND HAD NO RPECT FOR ANYTHG. HE THOUGHT HE WAS UNTOUCHABLE.”THOUGH HALSTON ULD BE LD, CUTTG, AND IMPER LATER HIS REER, HUGO—A BRASH, ENTLED ER AND WARHOL ENTOURAGE FIGURE—PROVED TO BE HALSTON’S KRYPTONE. “HE ULDN’T GET RID OF HIM,” GA TOLD V.F. “AND BELIEVE ME, VICTOR WOULDN’T LET HIM GO.”THE YEAR AFTER HALSTON MET HUGO, THE SIGNER WAS ARGUABLY AT THE TOP OF HIS REER—GROSSG NEARLY $30 LN RETAIL SAL, HAVG AMASSED THREE PRTIG COTY AWARDS (A FASHN WORLD PRECSOR TO THE CFDA AWARDS), AND BEG EMED “ONE OF THE GREATS” BY WOMEN’S WEAR. “HALSTON’S MONEY AND HUGO’S APPETE FOR EXCS MA THE PAIR AN ACCINT WAG TO HAPPEN,” MED TELEGRAPH A RETROSPECTIVE PUBLISHED 2001.HALSTON MOVED HUGO TO HIS HOME, PUT HIM ON THE PANY PAYROLL, AND EVENTUALLY LET HIS BOYIEND DRS THE WDOWS OF HIS BOUTIQUE—EVEN THOUGH HALSTON’S PREV BOYIEND, AT, WAS ALREADY DOG THAT JOB. THE NFLICT BETWEEN THEM ME TO A HEAD DURG THE CHRISTMAS SEASON OF 1973, WHEN HALSTON HAD HUGO RERATE A WDOW AT HAD SIGNED.“I WAS FIRED. CHRISTMAS EVE, THANK YOU—OUT THE DOOR, NO SEVERANCE, NOTHG,” AT TOLD GA, REVEALG THAT HE NEVER SAW THE SIGNER AGA.MOST POPULARADAM SANDLER FDS LOW-KEY TRIUMPH YOU ARE SO NOT INVED TO MY BAT MZVAHBY SAVANNAH WALSHNETFLIX’S MURDGH MURRS IS OFFICIALLY RETURNG FOR SEASON 2: EXCLIVEBY SAVANNAH WALSHAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYIN THE MID-’70S, HALSTON WAS UNR TREMENDO PRSURE, AS HIS EMPIRE EXPAND TO AGRANCE, LUGGAGE, MENSWEAR, LGERIE, AND HANDBAGS. HE WAS PRIMED FOR A RELEASE VALVE WHEN STUD 54 OPENED 1977—AND HALSTON JUMPED HEADFIRST TO THE NEW VENUE, CHANGG HIS OFFICE HOURS TO TER TO HIS PARTYG SCHLE AND SUPPORTG HUGO AS HE PLAYED HOST TO LAVISH AFTER-PARTI AT HALSTON’S UPPER EAST SI TOWNHOME. THE PARTI, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK POST, FEATURED “MAN-ON-MAN I LATE TO THE NIGHT [THAT ANDY] WARHOL ENJOYED PHOTOGRAPHG OM THE SIL.” AS PUBLICIST R. COURI HAY TOLD THE POST, “VICTOR HAD THE KEYS TO THE SAFE WH THE E.”“VICTOR WAS A STCTIVE FORCE,” SAID LONGTIME VANY FAIR SPECIAL RRPONNT BOB COLACELLO 2019’S HALSTON DOCUMENTARY. “ANDY DID VICTOR’S PORTRAS. HE DID TWO. ONE DAY HE SHOWS UP, AND THE PATG IS PLETELY VERED WH GRAFFI. [VICTOR] HAD PATED OVER THEM, THKG THAT THIS WAS TAKG ANDY’S ART TO ANOTHER LEVEL. AND ANDY WAS REALLY MAD. HE WAS LIKE, ‘DON’T THK I’M DOG NEW ON, VICTOR.’”WHEN HALSTON AND HUGO STOPPED SLEEPG TOGETHER, THE FASHN SIGNER TURNED TO OTHER RTS LIKE ROBERT ROGERS, “AN UNASSUMG BLACK MAN OF MEDIUM HEIGHT AND BUILD HIS LATE TWENTI WHO WAS ONE OF MANHATTAN’S MOST SUCCSFUL MALE PROSTUT,” WROTE GA.BUT HALSTON ULD NOT PLETELY CUT OFF HIS FORMER PARTNER—EVEN WHEN HUGO BEGAN STEALG OM HIM TO FUND HIS DG HAB. “HE STOLE SOME WARHOLS, BUT HE ALSO TOOK THE STERLG SILVER ELSA PERETTI NDLTICKS ON THE TABLE,” GA TOLD V.F., REVEALG THAT HALSTON NTUED TO BANKROLL HUGO’S LIFTYLE AFTER THEY BROKE UP—PAYG FOR HIS HOG AND WRG HIM CHECKS.“THE PERSON THAT HALSTON LOVED, MORE THAN HIS OWN LIFE, WAS VICTOR,” HALSTON’S PERSONAL ASSISTANT PECH VALLS TOLD GA. HALSTON’S IEND SASSY JOHNSON HAD ANOTHER TAKE ON THE RELATNSHIP.“MY THEORY HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT HALSTON ME OM AN ALHOLIC FAY, THAT HIS FATHER HAD A PROBLEM,” SAID JOHNSON 2019’S HALSTON. “AND THAT HALSTON RECREATED HIS FAY LIFE WH VICTOR AS THE DYSFUNCTNAL PERSON WHO IS NSTANTLY GOG TO KEEP EVERYTHG OFF BALANCE.”“I THK THAT’S PROBABLY A VERY GOOD ANALYSIS,” SAID GA, EXPLAG THAT HALSTON’S FATHER DID “PRETTY HORRIBLE THGS” TO THE FAY WHEN THEY WERE GROWG UP EVANSVILLE, INDIANA—CLUDG TO HALSTON’S SISTER AND BROTHER. “AND THEY WEREN’T GAY. I THK HALSTON HAD A VERY, VERY, VERY TOUGH TIME. I N’T IMAGE WHAT WAS LIKE FOR A GAY LTLE BOY TO BE THERE.”AFTER HALSTON WAS DIAGNOSED WH HIV 1988, HE MOVED TO SAN FRANCIS TO BE CLOSER TO HIS FAY—AND TO GET AWAY OM HUGO. HALSTON’S NIECE LLEY FROWICK TOLD PEOPLE THAT HALSTON’S FAL YEARS, “HE TOLERATED [HUGO], BUT HE WAS TROUBLE.”EVEN AFTER HALSTON’S 1990 ATH, HUGO NTUED TO TRY TO MAKE MONEY OFF THE SIGNER, ACRDG TO GA. “VICTOR ABSOLUTELY WOULD NOT GIVE ME AN TERVIEW UNLS I PAID HIM. ALL THE MONEY JT WENT UP HIS NOSE AND ON CRAZY SPENDG AND STCTIVE STUFF.”MOST POPULARADAM SANDLER FDS LOW-KEY TRIUMPH YOU ARE SO NOT INVED TO MY BAT MZVAHBY SAVANNAH WALSHNETFLIX’S MURDGH MURRS IS OFFICIALLY RETURNG FOR SEASON 2: EXCLIVEBY SAVANNAH WALSHAND JT LIKE THAT: MICHAEL PATRICK KG KNOWS WHEN THE AUDIENCE TURNED ON CHE DIAZBY CHRIS MURPHYTHREE S LATER, HALSTON’S IENDS STILL POT FGERS AT HUGO FOR HIS NEGATIVE FLUENCE ON THE SIGNER.“THAT VENEZUELAN LL BOY WAS HIS DOWNFALL,” LONGTIME TALLEY TOLD THE NEW YORK TIM. “HE WAS A GRIFTER WHO CLUNG ON LIKE A PARASE, LIKE A BARNACLE ON A SHIP.”AND 2019’S HALSTON DOCUMENTARY, FILMMAKER FRéDéRIC TCHENG ASKED THE SIGNER’S ILLTRATOR AND NFIDANT JOE EULA FOR HIS ANALYSIS OF THE STCTIVE RELATNSHIP. EULA MCED NO WORDS.“WHY DID HALSTON PUT UP WH VICTOR?” TCHENG ASKS.“BEE HE WAS LOVE WH HIM,” EULA REPLI.“WHEN DID FALL APART?” TCHENG PRS.“THE DAY THEY MET,” EULA RPONDS, WHOUT HATN.IN MAKG NETFLIX’S HALSTON, THOUGH, THE SERI CREATORS WANTED TO MAKE HUGO (PLAYED BY GIAN FRAN RODRIGUEZ) A FULLY DIMENSNAL CHARACTER—AND DIRECTOR/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DANIEL MAHAN WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS TO UNRSTAND HIM.“VICTOR WAS THE HARST CHARACTER TO WRE BEE HE WAS A DISPTOR,” MAHAN TOLD VANY FAIR, REVEALG THAT HE SPOKE TO FASHN SIGNER AND HALSTON PROTéGé NAEEM KHAN BEFORE FILMG. KHAN TOLD HIM THAT “SPE ALL OF HIS SANY AND THE DISPTN, VICTOR WAS A PERSON WHO ULD MAKE YOU SEE THGS A DIFFERENT WAY.”“BEE HALSTON AND HUGO MET THIS TRANSACTNAL WAY, WHEN VICTOR WAS A HTLER, AT LEAST OUR STORY, THE DYNAMIC IS THAT HALSTON IS NEVER SURE WHETHER HE N FULLY TST VICTOR,” EXPLAED MAHAN. “HE DON’T KNOW WHETHER VICTOR REALLY LOV HIM, OR WHETHER HE’S THERE FOR THE PRIVILEGE AND THE MONEY. AND I THK VICTOR IS NOT SURE WHETHER HALSTON REALLY LOV HIM BEE HE MET HIM AS A PROSTUTE. I THK ’S THIS REALLY LOAD SORT OF DYNAMIC BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM.”“I THK VICTOR GOT SO EP TO HIS ADDICTN AND SO OVERWHELMED AND DNK OFF THE ATTENTN THEY WERE GETTG THAT HE BEME A REALLY STCTIVE FORCE,” NTUED MAHAN. “I THK MAYBE VICTOR, THE BEGNG, WAS THE PERSON WHO ULD TELL HALSTON THE TTH ABOUT THGS. BUT THEN THAT BEME SOMETHG MORE MANIPULATIVE. THEIR RELATNSHIP IS A SAD STORY. BUT I THK WE KD OF TRY TO PTURE THE EXCEMENT OF AND THE DANGER OF , AND THEN FALLY THE DYSFUNCTN OF .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR — AFTER JEN SHAH’S ARRT, HOW CAN WE KEEP ENJOYG REAL HOEWIV?— BARRY JENKS ON BRGG THE UNRGROUND RAILROAD TO TV— HOW SWIMMG WH SHARKS TRIED TO WARN US ABOUT STT RUD— QUIL LEMONS’S 2021 VANY FAIR OSR PORTRAS— ANDREW MCCARTHY ON PRETTY PK AND THE BRAT PACK— THE 2021 OSR CEREMONY WAS A NOBLE, DOOMED EXPERIMENT— ELLT PAGE FALLY FEELS “ABLE TO JT EXIST”— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE UNSKABLE JENNIFER ANISTON— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.JULIE MILLER

Aún así, los obispos y los rnal os mismos sector tradicnalistas sisten en señalar a los sacerdot homosexual o la a l problema ntro la maniftacn posterr sobre el clero gay, el prop Papa pareció volverse más críti. En rputa a las preguntas BBC News Brasil sobre quién pue nvertirse en sacerdote, el arzobispo primado Brasil, Dom Murilo Krieger, có la última stcción publida por la iglia en 2005, la que dice que uno no pue "admir en semars y órn sagradas a los que practin la homosexualidad ", prentan "tenncias homosexual profundamente arraigadas" o "apoyan la llamada 'cultura gay'" texto que ca el primado la Arquidiócis Brasil se hizo válido en los primeros m l papado Joseph Ratzger, Benedicto XVI, y el más rtrictivo en relación a los stcción repe las normas que ya aparecieron en el Catecismo la Iglia (njunto reglas la doctra tóli para todos los país), cro por el prop Ratzger, entonc rnal, en aquel entonc era el lír la Congregación para la Doctra la Fe, una entidad l Vatino rponsable fenr la tradición e ias teológis la Iglia.

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