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Thema: Biografischer Roman

Biografischer Roman
Biografische Romane erschließen Persönlichkeiten mitunter komplexer als es das biografische Sachbuch vermag, denn sie beziehen einerseits die subjektive Sicht des Autors produktiv in die Darstellung mit ein und ermöglichen andererseits die dramatische Zuspitzung komplexer Situationen. Gerade im Bezug auf lesbische und schwule Personen der Vergangenheit ist das Genre des Romans von besonderer Bedeutung, ermöglicht doch der Roman viel stärker als das Sachbuch die Darstellung eines Lebens in mitfühlender, empathischer Weise, wo Quellen nur andeuten, schweigen oder ? wie häufig ? gezielt vernichtet wurden.

Louis Bayard: The Pale Blue Eye

USA 2007, 415 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet's body swinging from a rope just off the parade grounds. An apparent suicide is not unheard of in a harsh regimen like West Point's, but the next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Someone has stolen into ... Weiterlesen

Andy Zeffer: Going Down in La-La Land

USA 2006, 253 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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An actor can - and will - do a lot of things to survive in Hollywood. Young, ambitious, and gay, Adam Zeller arrives from New York with the looks and talent to become a star, but he soon finds himself lost in a seamy (and steamy) underworld of gay porn and male prostitution, dealing with down-and-out directors, washed-up starlets, crystal ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: The Man Who Knew Too Much

USA 2006, 319 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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One of the most important openings to the modern computer was made by Alan Turing - remarkably while he was solving an entirely different problem. Shy and insecure about his middle-class origins, Turing could show those close to him sly humor and bracing candor - even about his homosexuality. He also had one of the keenest minds of the 20th ... Weiterlesen

T.C. Boyle: The Inner Circle

USA 2005, 418 pp., pb., € 8.12
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1939, on the campus of Indiana University, a revolution is beginning. The stir is caused by Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist who is determinated to take sex out of the bedroom. John Milk, a freshman, is enthralled by the professor's daring lectures and over the next two decades becomes Kinsey's right-hand man. But Kinsey teaches Milk more than the art of ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Sean Greer: The Confessions of Max Tivoli

UK/USA 2004, 271 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Faber and Faber

Set in San Francisco a hundred years ago, it is the story of a man who suffers from a rare medical condition and, in a sense, lives life backwards. Max Tivoli is writing the story of his life. He is nearly seventy years old, but he looks as if he is only seven - for Max is ageing backwards. The ... Weiterlesen

Colm Tóibín: The Master

UK 2004, 360 pp., pb, € 14.95
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»The Master« is a conundrum about Henry James. He was such a master of insight into the human heart but appeared to be so divorced from his own. The man who wrote so movingly about women seemed not to have more than friendships with them. James was exquisitely sensitive and kind, but both his New England upbringing and his homosexuality ... Weiterlesen

James Hamilton-Paterson: Gerontius

UK 2002, 264 pp., pb, € 11.95
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»Gerontius« is the story of a real voyage made by Sir Edward Elgar, the celebrated composer of »Land of Hope and Glory«, the very embodiment of English patriotism. In 1923 he sets off from Liverpool for Brazil, intending to travel up the Amazon to Manaos. His steamer moves up the great river into the primeval landscape. He is on his ... Weiterlesen

Martin Sherman: Bent

USA 1998, 80 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Martin Sherman's worldwide hit play »Bent« took London by storm in 1979 when it was first perfored by the Royal court Theatre, with Ian McKellen as Max. The play itself caused an uproar. - Gays were arrested and interned at work camps and continued to be imprisoned even after the fall of the Third Reich and liberation of the camps. ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Nature of Alexander

USA 1979, 276 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Pantheon

»The Nature of Alexander« is a popular, non-academic, very readable biography of Alexander the Great. It is Mary Renault's only non-fiction book. It's not a »neutral« book, but presents Alexander in a very favorable light. Nevertheless, it's a »popular« work, but by no means devoid of authority.