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One of my favorite authors.
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ok, i'm just shooting in the dark now, bit is it Federico Garcia Lorca???
I don't know if he was definitely gay, but I think I remember reading he was a in retrospective review in some newspaper.
Jose
...eight priests!!! It looked impressive!
We Wrote Letters Every Day by The Fiery Furnaces
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Nope......
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Something says "Tolstoy" but I have no idea why
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Nope....
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His fiction is tauted as the finest of the 20th century.
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E M Forster? But he was hardly "great"
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Nope.... not even close......
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So ... it's Proust.
Whom I have tried to read, several times over the past four decades, in both french and in (I think) two different translations. And failed miserably after wading through the first dozen pages. Hardly an impressive start on the sixteen volumes of "a la recherche du temps perdue".
However, my mother - an ex-teacher of French - tells me that at 50 I may still be too young for it, and to wait another decade!
Assuming I'm right, I'll post a pic in a couple of hours time.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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Count Leo Tolstoy??????????;-D
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Proust it is......
Now for reading and understanding him.....
just convert all the female names to the masculine equivilant...
it becomes easier to interpret his intent that way......
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Okay, sorry had to say that......The Poet Arthur Rimbaud
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Born 1871 just outside Paris.... suffered from acute asthema from the age of about 9 and was also said to be hypersensitive to light as well as noise.
He nontheless enlisted in the French army and was stationed in Orleans for a year.
He had a relationship with pianist/composer Reynaldo Hahn.
It is easier to understand his fiction if you take off the feminine endings of names....Albertine, Gilberte, Andrée....and regard these characters instead as young men.
Proust died in 1922 and was buried in Paris.
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