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S'està carregant… A Cidade e o Pilar e sete contos da juventude (edició 1999)de Gore Vidal
Informació de l'obraThe City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories de Gore Vidal (Author)
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ContéThe Robin {short story} de Gore Vidal (indirecte) A Moment of Green Laurel {short story} de Gore Vidal (indirecte) Erlinda and Mr. Coffin {short story} de Gore Vidal (indirecte) Three stratagems {short story} de Gore Vidal (indirecte) The Zenner Trophy {short story} de Gore Vidal (indirecte) The Ladies in the Library {short story} de Gore Vidal (indirecte)
In 1948, Gore Vidal was a celebrated twenty-two-year-old war novelist about to embark on a career in politics. His future seemed clear. But then he made a choice that changed his life. He published The City and the Pillar, an openly homosexual novel that was taken to be largely autobiographical. "I have read that I was too stupid at the time to know what I was doing," he notes in his introduction to this edition, "but in such matters I have always had a certain alertness. I knew that my description of the love affair between two 'normal' all-American boys, of the sort that I had spent three years in the army with during the war, would challenge every superstition about sex in my native land." His publisher hated the book. The New York Times would not advertise it. The City and the Pillar became a bestseller, nevertheless, and is now a classic. Thomas Mann called it a "noble work." The tragic story of Jim Willard's self-deluded love for another small-town American boy and the portrait of homosexual life in New York and Hollywood in the forties are still moving and truthful, as evocative and topical today as they were nearly fifty years ago. This edition incorporates Vidal's 1965 revisions and some further emendations by the author. Vidal's only collection of short stories, published as A Thirsty Evil in 1956, is also included here, bringing together for the first time his early homoerotic work. These subtle and comic tales, set in Key West, Washington, D.C., Paris, and New York, are at once sophisticated and charming, written with the narrative power for which Gore Vidal is famous. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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La transgresión que supuso esta novela, al plantear de una forma cruda sin paliativos la aventura amorosa entre dos hombres, determinó la vida de Gore Vidal; de joven promesa política pasó a ser un escritor censurado por la crítica, aunque no por el público, que convirtió su libro en un éxito de ventas.
Se incluye también la única colección de cuentos de Gore Vidal, recopilando de este modo por primera vez toda su obra erótica de juventud.