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I'm sure in its time this was completely shocking, but reading it now, I find a gay man straining to give voice to his passion while maintaining a screen - not ever letting men fall in love with each other. All his protestations that his is a story of awakening to life in the discovery of sensuality fall a little flat when he avoids going in fiction where in life his desires obviously (to a modern reader) lie. Plus the displacement of beauty from adults on to children, like with Thomas Mann, ten
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Dec 30, 2018
Tatjana JP
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it was amazing
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