Scandal in the Ink

Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-century French Literature

• Author(s): Christopher Robinson,
• Publisher: Cassell
• Pages: 272
• ISBN_10: 0304327050
  ISBN_13: 9780304327058
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / French , Literary Criticism / LGBTQ ,

Description:... This study of the influences and roles of homosexual writers and themes in modern French literature examines how views of homosexuality are polarized between negative self-hatred (Proust) and positive idealization (Gide and the Blarney Group). Because the nature of identity is a key theme in 20th-century French literature, the quest for understanding sexual identities and self-image is an integral focus for the contemporary writers cited here.