A Strange Love: A Novel of Abnormal Passion - Couverture souple

Eekhoud, Georges

 
9781410108913: A Strange Love: A Novel of Abnormal Passion
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1410108910 ISBN 13 : 9781410108913
Editeur : Fredonia Books (NL), 2005

Synopsis

A very early gay novel, originally published in 1900, by a Belgian writer with the first English translation in 1908, set in 19th Century rural Flanders. A gay count returns after years abroad to an isolated uptight community where his love for a peasant boy brings furious attacks by fanatic and bigoted villages whipped up by the girl he spurned. The count's gay education of his peasant boy includes the history of the boy-Emperor whose lover voluntarily joined him for beheading. This pioneer work of fiction was among the first novels to focus unapologetically on gay relationships and the author, a distinguished Belgian literary figure, faced legal prosecution for this book. Georges Eekhoud (1854-1927), a Belgian poet and novelist, became known as the editor of the Antwerp Precurseur, from which post he passed to the position of literary critic of the Etoile Belge.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Eekhoud's legendary account of love between the Count and Guidon... following the latter's dalliance with servant gal Blandine. Tame by 19th century standards, it's still a foundational work of gay literature.

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Éditeur
Fredonia Books (NL)
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1410108910
ISBN 13 
9781410108913
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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