Have we reached a pot where bgraphers and crics n discs a closeted subject's gay relatnships whout gigglg, droolg, or nmng? After the recent books on bi or gay Cheever, Wgh, and Forster, this week offers Sela Hastgs' much praised new The Secret Liv of Somerset Mgham: A Bgraphy ,...
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MGHAM'S GAY LIFE
Have we reached a pot where bgraphers and crics n discs a closeted subject's gay relatnships whout gigglg, droolg, or nmng? After the recent books on bi or gay Cheever, Wgh, and Forster, this week offers Sela Hastgs' much praised new The Secret Liv of Somerset Mgham: A Bgraphy, which I've only briefly thumbed.
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Mgham was now fally ee to create the regime of hard work and self-dulgent hedonism – the Villa Mrque beme a kd of discreet sexual nirvana for the lerary gay man – that he really sired.
Michael Wood, his troductn to Liza of Lambeth quot Mgham's nephew, Rob as wrg: "Mgham appears never to have felt that beg a wrer was a rpectable profsn, and of urse his own homosexualy n't have helped much. " Why, do you thk, there are no regnizably (or even hted at) gay characters Mgham's fictn. I n thk of at least a uple stori where a b of a homoerotic element is apparent, such as "Red", and others where a given character was probably meant to be homosexual by the scriptn given.
The Longt Journey was (by his own admissn) tobgraphil, and therefore about a homosexual relatnship. His one explicly gay novel, Mrice, he dared not publish, and only me out after his ath. The same go for those of his short stori wh gay them (see here for a review of a llectn) gus I'd like to thk more about your qutn as applied to Mgham however.