The Penguin Book of International Gay Writing

xx, [2], 585, [1] pp. 8vo. "An anthology of short stories and essays explores themes of love between men, homosexual identity, and family and friend relationships by such writers as Thomas Mann, Tony Duvert, Plato, Boccaccio, Leonardo da Vinci, and Kafka." Includes: Introduction by David Leavitt; Excerpts from: Symposium by Plato; Satyricon by Petronius [Arbiter]; Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio; The Cut Sleeve by Ameng of Wu; The Great Mirror of Male Love by Ihara Saikaku; The 120 Days of Sodom and Philosophy in the Bedroom by Marquis de Sade; Young Torless by Robert Musil; Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood by Sigmund Freud; Corydon and Madeleine by Andre Gide; The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann; The White Book by Jean Cocteau; Alexis by Marguerite Yourcenar; The Plague by Albert Camus; Pathetic Symphony by Klaus Mann; Ernesto by Umberto Saba; Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante; The Third Wedding by Costas Taktsis; Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima; Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima; Nearer to Thee by Gerard Reve; Sweet Tooth by Yves Navarre; The Carnivorous Lamb by Agustin Gomez-Arcos; Betrayed by Rita Hayworth by Manuel Puig; A Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes; Tricks by Renaud Camus; When Jonathan Died by Tony Duvert; It's Me, Eddie by Edward Limonov; Gemini by Michel Tournier; The Death of Beauty by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi; The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso. Also includes the full text of: Sarrasine by Honore de Balzac; Letters to Louis Bouilhet by Gustave Flaubert; The Herald of the Beast by Fyodor Sologub; Death in Venice by Thomas Mann; A Low Fever by Sandro Penna; A Prison Song in Prose by Gerard Reve; One Boy's Story: How I Got Like That by Evgeny Kharitonov; The Reservoir by Evgeny Popov; Prikli by Michel Tournier; Beauty by Caio Fernando Abreu; An Angel at Orsay by Patrick Drevet; Mona by Reinaldo Arenas; IJsbrand by Edwin Oostmeijer.