| Description |
xx, 585 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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, 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, From Madeleine / Andre Gide -- Death in Venice, 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, 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, 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. |
| Summary |
Forty-six stories of fiction and non-fiction from three continents. The writers range from Thomas Mann to Yukio Mishima, the subjects from Saint Sebastian to Mona Lisa. Several stories deal with a subject seldom discussed: seduction of boys by adult men. |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- Fiction.
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Gays -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Mitchell, Mark (Mark Lindsey)
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| ISBN |
0670853690 |
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9780670853694 |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 518283 |
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NZ1 4327185 |
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AU@ 000011080671 |
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