Marina Kostalevsky: The Tchaikovsky Papers

UK 2018, 296 pp., hardbound, € 79.95
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Yale University Press
This fascinating collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum sheds new light on the world of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Most of these documents have never before been available in English, and they reveal the composer's daily concerns, private thoughts, and playful sense of humor. Often intimate and sometimes bawdy, these texts also offer ... Weiterlesen

Gregory Woods: Homintern

How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World. USA 2016, 432 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Yale University Press
In a study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, the author identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in which increased visibility made acceptance of homosexuality one of the measures of modernity. Woods shines a light on ... Weiterlesen

Benjamin Taylor: Proust: The Search

USA 2015, 224 pp., hardbound, € 25.99
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Yale University Press
Marcel Proust came into his own as a novelist comparatively late in life. As biographer Benjamin Taylor suggests, before writing »In Search of Lost Time«, his multivolume masterwork, Proust was a literary lightweight, but, following a series of momentous historical and personal events, he became - against all expectations - one of the greatest writers of his era. This biography ... Weiterlesen

Richard Siken: Crush

USA 2004, 62 pp., pb., € 24.95
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Yale University Press
Richard Siken's »Crush«, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by panic and obsession. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. In her introduction ... Weiterlesen

Eva Cantarella: Bisexuality in the Ancient World

USA 2002, 286 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Yale University Press
In this thought-provoking history of bisexuality in the classical age, Eva Cantarella draws on the full range of sources - from legal texts, inscriptions and medical documents to poetry and philosophical literature - to reconstruct and compare the bisexual cultures of Athens and Rome. Cantarella presents the ancient evidence, draws comparisons between heterosexuality and homosexuality, and elucidates the larger cultural ... Weiterlesen