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Title

The Penguin book of international gay writing / edited by Mark Mitchell ; introduction by David Leavitt.

Publication

New York, NY : Viking, 1995.

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Holdings

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Additional Authors

Mitchell, Mark (Mark Lindsey)

Description

xx, 585 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "A riotous party," says David Leavitt of this anthology, in which seventeenth-century samurai mingle with twentieth-century Russian emigres and Chinese peasants. As in The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories, writers both gay and straight explore the complicated questions surrounding love and sex between men, homosexual identity, relationships between gay men, their friends, and their families.
• From Plato to Boccaccio, Marguerite Yourcenar to Reinaldo Arenas, Yukio Mishima to Manuel Puig, these writings reveal an unexpected cultural and historical flexibility of attitudes toward homosexuality.

Subjects

• Gays in literature
• Homosexuality in literature

Contents

• Introduction / David Leavitt -- From Symposium / Plato -- From Satyricon / Petronius -- From Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio -- From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night -- From Autobiography / Benvenuto Cellini -- From The Cut Sleeve / Ameng of Wu -- From The Great Mirror of Male Love / Ihara Saikaku -- From The 120 Days of Sodom / Marquis de Sade -- From Philosophy in the Bedroom / Marquis de Sade -- "Sarrasine" / Honore de Balzac -- Letter to Louis Bouilhet / Gustave Flaubert -- "The Herald of the Beast" / Fyodor Sologub -- From Young Torless / Robert Musil -- From Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood / Sigmund Freud -- From Corydon / Andre Gide -- From Madeleine / Andre Gide -- Death in Venice / Thomas Mann -- From The Magic Mountain / Thomas Mann -- From The White Book / Jean Cocteau -- From Alexis / Marguerite Yourcenar -- "A Low Fever" / Sandro Penna -- From The Plague / Albert Camus -- From Pathetic Symphony / Klaus Mann -- From Ernesto / Umberto Saba.
• From Arturo's Island / Elsa Morante -- From The Third Wedding / Costas Taktsis -- From Confessions of a Mask / Yukio Mishima -- From Paradiso / Jose Lezama Lima -- From Nearer to Thee / Gerard Reve -- "A Prison Song in Prose" / Gerard Reve -- From Sweet Tooth / Yves Navarre -- From The Carnivorous Lamb / Agustin Gomez-Arcos -- "One Boy's Story: 'How I Got Like That'" / Evgeny Kharitonov -- From Betrayed by Rita Hayworth / Manuel Puig -- From A Lover's Discourse / Roland Barthes -- From Tricks / Renaud Camus -- From When Jonathan Died / Tony Duvert -- From It's Me, Eddie / Edward Limonov -- "The Reservoir" / Evgeny Popov -- "Prikli" / Michel Tournier -- From Gemini / Michel Tournier -- From The Death of Beauty / Giuseppe Patroni Griffi -- From The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony / Roberto Calasso -- "Beauty" / Caio Fernando Abreu -- "An Angel at Orsay" / Patrick Drevet -- "Mona" / Reinaldo Arenas -- "IJsbrand" / Edwin Oostmeijer.

ISBN

• 0670853690
• 0670853372 (paperback)

LCCN

94013193

OCLC

ocm30782723

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries