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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.





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Sergey Fetisov: Firebird: The Story of Roman

Sergey Fetisov: Firebird: The Story of Roman

GB 2022, 250 pp., pb., € 24.95
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Palmetto Publishing
The Story of Roman chronicles one man's unwavering resolve to follow his heart above all else. In 1970s Soviet occupied Estonia, handsome soulful soldier Sergey is serving out a compulsory two-year conscription at a Soviet Air Force Base. While stationed there, he meets and falls in love with a maverick fighter pilot, Roman. The two young men begin a secret ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Gale: Mother's Boy

Patrick Gale: Mother's Boy

UK 2022, 416 pp., brochure, € 21.95
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Headline
Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow. In a small, class-obsessed town she raises her boy alone, working as a laundress, ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan Lee: The Great Mistake

Jonathan Lee: The Great Mistake

UK 2021, 291 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Granta Books
Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of 83, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing - on Park Avenue, in broad daylight, on Friday the 13th - shook the city. Green was born to a poor farmer, yet without him there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no ... Weiterlesen

Colm Tóibín: The Magician

Colm Tóibín: The Magician

UK 2021, 240 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK
From one of our greatest living gay writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. »The Magician« tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear ... Weiterlesen

Julian Barnes: The Man in the Red Coat

Julian Barnes: The Man in the Red Coat

UK 2020, 268 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Vintage
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrive in London for a few days' shopping. One is a Prince, one is a Count, and the third is a commoner, who four years earlier has been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The commoner is Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a scientific man ... Weiterlesen

David Ebershoff: The Danish Girl

David Ebershoff: The Danish Girl

UK 2000, 336 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Copenhagen, 1925, the studio of American painter Greta Waud, anxious to put the finishing touches to her latest portrait. But her diva subject has cancelled yet another sitting - how is Greta ever going to get it done? A sudden glint in her eye, and she calls to her husband Einar. And so, late on an April afternoon, in a ... Weiterlesen

Anne Choma: Gentleman Jack

Anne Choma: Gentleman Jack

The Real Anne Lister. UK 2019, 327 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 24.95
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Penguin UK
The real Anne Lister, and the official companion to the hit BBC series created by Sally Wainwright and starring Suranne Jones. In »Gentleman Jack«, historian and series consultant Anne Choma draws from the explosive diaries of Anne Lister to recreate the life and times of one of the most fascinating lesbian figures of all time. Anne's remarkable diaries, partly written ... Weiterlesen

Angela Steidele: Gentleman Jack

Angela Steidele: Gentleman Jack

A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist. UK 2019, 352 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Profile
The extraordinary life story of Anne Lister, as told in the BBC drama »Gentleman Jack«. Anne Lister was a Yorkshire heiress, an intrepid world traveller and a proud lesbian during a time when it was difficult simply to be female. She chose to remain unmarried, dressed all in black and spoke openly of her lack of interest in men. The ... Weiterlesen

Rupert Thomson: Never Anyone But You

Rupert Thomson: Never Anyone But You

UK 2019, 278 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Corsair
When Suzanne, a shy 17-year-old, meets the brilliant but troubled Lucie in rural Provence, the two young women embark on a clandestine love affair. The lovers move to Paris where they recreate themselves entirely, as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Before long, they are mixing in the most glamorous social circles and producing art of great power and strangeness. But ... Weiterlesen

David Lagercrantz: Fall of Man in Wilmslow

David Lagercrantz: Fall of Man in Wilmslow

The Life and Death of Alan Turing: A Novel. UK 2015, 367 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Quercus
This thriller opens with Alan Turing's suicide, and a young (homophobic) detective's awakening to painful secrets about his own life and the life of his country. In 1954, several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch-hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no one is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing, ... Weiterlesen

Damon Galgut: Arctic Summer

Damon Galgut: Arctic Summer

South Africa 2014, 368 pp., pb., € 89.95
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In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. It will be another twelve years, and ... Weiterlesen
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Hassan Najmi: Gertrude

Hassan Najmi: Gertrude

English by Roger Allen. USA 2014, 283 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Interlink
As Najmi's novel begins, our unnamed narrator befriends an elderly man, Muhammad, who, as a young man, worked as a tour guide in the city of Tangier. Muhammad tells the narrator about his most famous clients, a lesbian couple - the renowned Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice Toklas, who on the recommendation of Henri Matisse hired Muhammad as their ... Weiterlesen

James Purdy: Cabot Wright Begins

James Purdy: Cabot Wright Begins

USA 2013, 252 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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W. W. Norton
First appearing in the stifling cultural climate of early 1960s America, »Cabot Wright Begins«, despite exuberant reviews from a few of America's most astute reviewers, was regarded, given its shocking and disturbing content, as far too ahead of its time. It tells the story of Chicago car salesman Bernie Gladhart who, spurred on by his ambitious wife, decides to write ... Weiterlesen

Abdellah Taia: An Arab Melancholia

Abdellah Taia: An Arab Melancholia

Engl. by Frank Stock. USA 2012, 141 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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MIT Press
Salé, near Rabat. The 1980s. A lower-class teenager is running until he's out of breath. He's running after his dream, his dream to become a movie director. He's running after the Egyptian movie star, Souad Hosni, who's out there somewhere, miles away from this neighborhood - which is a place the teenager both loves and hates, the home at which ... Weiterlesen

Paul Russell: The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov

Paul Russell: The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov

USA 2011, 383 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Cleis
Russell's protagonist is an outsider because of his sexuality. He is the eyewitness to world-changing events and manages to find a place for himself at the heart of the creative life of his times. Russell gives us incisive portraits of Cocteau, Diaghilev, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas and their Charmed Circle, and Vladimir and Véra Nabokov, and glimpses into ... Weiterlesen

Marshall J. Fisher: A Terrible Splendor

Marshall J. Fisher: A Terrible Splendor

Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played. USA 2009, 321 pp., brochure, € 15.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Crown
On the eve of World War II, with the Nazi flag fluttering over Wimbledon's Centre Court, America's tennis champion took on Germany's. This taccount uses the deciding 1937 Davis Cup match between Gottfried von Cramm and Don Budge to explore both the pre-topspin era of tennis and prewar international tension. Von Cramm emerges as an elegant resister to the Reich, ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: The Berlin Stories

Christopher Isherwood: The Berlin Stories

USA 2008, 408 pp., pb., € 24.95
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First published in the 1930s, »The Berlin Stories« contains two astonishing related novels, »Mr. Norris Changes Trains« and »Goodbye to Berlin«, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs ... Weiterlesen

Randy Shilts: The Mayor of Castro Street

Randy Shilts: The Mayor of Castro Street

The Life and Times of Harvey Milk. USA 2008 (Reprint), 388 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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SMP
Known as »The Mayor of Castro Street« even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal life, public career, and final assassination reflect the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in America. It is a story full of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassinations at City Hall, massive riots in ... Weiterlesen

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