Tag: Fin de siècle literature
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Death in Venice
Review: A literary triumph. I nearly said tour de force but I’m gay enough already without adding fuel to the fire. A dark, brooding tale of homosexual obsession. Kind of like a gay Lolita. The prose is magnificent without being overly wordy and pedantic. Leitmotifs abound, so many that Wagner would be jealous. And speaking… Read more
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Pleasures and Days
Review: A little gem of a book. All of Proust’s juvenilia, all written before he was 23. All of it excellent. The first story he is definitely working Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Ilyich but with a more Proustian feel. The little vignette pieces are glorious. Moonlight walks through beech woods, you can really see the… Read more