[ilds] postscript re Robert Dessaix
Marc Piel
marcpiel at interdesign.fr
Wed Dec 30 10:59:15 PST 2009
Hi James,
Guess I didn't express myself correctly; my
comment was in relation to Dessaix, not to
Lawrence Durrell!
Cherrs and a happy New Year
Marc
James Gifford a écrit :
> Marc Piel wrote:
>> One of his latest books titled "Arabesques" has
>> just been published in France.
>>
>> The text on the "island" seems to me to be a
>> paradigme for the "state" of homosexuality.
>> Hardly LD!
>>
>> Marc
>
> I think I'd debate that... Which Durrell novel fails to include a major
> homosexual character or scene sympathetically? Let's not forget the
> word "bisexual" that's lost twice in epigrams and prefaces to the
> Quartet -- the word may have been cut, but I think it's still very much
> present in the text as a whole.
>
> Best,
> James
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