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Not that into it so far, but it's short and I'm trying to power through. All the characters are loathsome and tortured, which is not a High Literary Convention I enjoy, or an outlook on life that I share.
Funny to read this at the same time I'm in the middle of Quentin Crisp's The Naked Civil Servant: the viewpoint character (does he have a name? I never remember people's names) is on the other side of the gender divide and on the other side of the Channel, but you can see the same dynamics.
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Funny to read this at the same time I'm in the middle of Quentin Crisp's The Naked Civil Servant: the viewpoint character (does he have a name? I never remember people's names) is on the other side of the gender divide and on the other side of the Channel, but you can see the same dynamics.
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Kết năm bằng cuốn truyện pê đê. Cậu Giovanni đóng cái tủ sách chìm vào trong tường.
This, although being one of the better LGBT novels, on its own is only an average story imho. It has a nice way of telling a story we may all think that we have heard it before elsewhere. A fallen young and pretty European boy who perished from lost love. An American with a fiance, who struggled not to lose his masculinity, who depised old fairies for lusting after young boys, but too looked at young sailors the ...more
This, although being one of the better LGBT novels, on its own is only an average story imho. It has a nice way of telling a story we may all think that we have heard it before elsewhere. A fallen young and pretty European boy who perished from lost love. An American with a fiance, who struggled not to lose his masculinity, who depised old fairies for lusting after young boys, but too looked at young sailors the ...more
Baldwin has a superior talent for providing a window into the interior life of his main characters. In this book the main character is not an African American man; he is a gay expat. Both of these designations apply to the author himself. I wonder how much of what he describes applies to gay men today. I suspect more than we'd like to think.
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