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Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
Content: "If you're not scared of ideas, this book is for you. "Deliberately provocative, acutely intelligent, irresistibly interesting and wittily caustic - Gore Vidal's latest book of essays homes in on the state of America today, assesses Leonardo Sciascia's Sicily and Doris Lessings' SF, visits the Land of Oz and dissects movie-making in Hollywood. The controversial essay entitled Pink Triange and Yellow Star (from the armpatches worn in concentration camps) throws a searching Vidalian light on relations between two cultural minorities." (from the cover) Background / Biography:
Reviews: "He is learned, funny and exceptionally clear-sighted . . . Essays are what he is good at . . . Will give everyone many hours of nervous pleasure" The Observer "Invigorating . . . mixture of the literary and political . . . scorching" Mail on Sunday "America's finest essayist" New Statesman "The nearest thing imaginable to Bernard Shaw" The Guardian (from the cover) |
"A few years ago on a trip to Paris, I read an intriguing review in Le Monde of a booked called Comme un Frère, Comme un Amant, a study of 'Male Homosexuality in the American Novel and Theatre from Herman Melville to James Baldwin,' the work of one Georges-Michel Sarotte, a Sorbonne graduate and a visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts. I read the book, found it interesting; met the author, found him interesting. He told me that he was looking forward to the publication of his book in the United States by Anchor Press/Doubleday. What sort of response did I think he would have? I was touched by so much innocent good faith. There will be no reaction, I said, because no one outside of the so-called gay press will review your book. He was shocked. Wasn't the book serious? scholarly? with an extensive bibliography? I agreed that it was all those things. Unfortunately, scholarly studies having to do with fags do not get reviewed in the United States (this was before the breakthrough of Yale's John Boswell, whose ferociously learned Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality obliged even the 'homophobic' New York Times to review it intelligently). If Sarotte had written about the agony and wonder of being female and/or Jewish and/or divorced, he would have been extensively reviewed. Even a study of black literature might have got attention. (Sarotte is beige), although blacks are something of a nonsubject in these last days of empire." opening paragraph, title essay (punctuation as original) Secondhand booksellers |
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