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Book Description: University of Michigan Press, USA, 1999. Soft Cover. Book Condition: New. Later Printing. 5 x 9 x 1-1/4 ". 1999 Softcover , later printing . BRAND NEW from publisher . Never opened , Never owned, Never marked . Gift Giving quality . 440 pages with index . orginally published in German as " Homosexualität und Literatur " . this volume in English only . Hubert Fichte - Novelist, anthropologist, playwright, and polemicist, German man of contemporary letters . Hubert Fichte was prolific and controversial, an outsider and auto-didact . Before his death at age 51, he was a powerful public voice who was broadcast on German radio, heard at public lectures, and read in academic and popular literary journals. . The Gay Critic . originally published in Germany as Homosexualität und Literatur . offers, both in content and form, a microcosm of Fichte's writings. The overarching concerns are with sexualities and their expression or repression, as evidenced in literary contexts by the producers and the receivers of marginalized, often reviled texts and textual scenes in Western European literature. Fichte uses contemporary points of reference--AIDS, literary mores, the gay voice, the ousted minor traditions--to discuss a wide range of literature. Fichte's perspective is fresh, unexpected, and uncommonly original as he champions literary untouchables such as the homosexualities conveyed by the Iliad; the now- obscure lyric poet von Platen, a polygraphic, homosexual contemporary of Goethe's and the prototype for Aschenbach in Mann's Death in Venice; and Jean Genet, on the question of French national socialism. Fichte contends that writing and its reception, its institutionalization and its repressions, are inseparable, even continuous. And, he argues, one's sexualities, libidinal and cultural, are inevitably engaged in either act. The volume also considers Sophocles, Petronius, Nizami, Villon, Rabelais, Quevedo, Marlowe, Defoe, Casanova, Stendhal, Flaubert, Strindberg, Lagerlöf, Proust, Euclides de Cunha, and Borges. Fichte's prose style defies categorization, comprising a postmodern pastiche that mixes spontaneous criticism and free-form commentary with quotation, academic writing, and dialogue laced with historical and critical reflection. Most of the essays were first read over German radio, and even after revision for publication have remained highly entertaining, accessible and compelling texts. . Peter Demetz of Yale University says : "Hubert Fichte was a writer quietly and intensely at odds with contemporary German society and literature--as "Half Jew" ( according to Nazi law ), as Protestant growing up in a Catholic orphanage, and a gay intellectual living in middle-class Hamburg. He wanted to be an outsider but instead of being sentimental about what others would call a life of the margins he made it a central place from which he observed others and his own consciousness, critically and with the highest perception." . " The Gay Critic " The Homosexual and Literature . by Hubert Fichte . translated from the original German into English by Kevin Gavin . published by the University of Michigan Press . 1999 Softcover . Brand New Gift Giving quality *** Securely packed for safe delivery ~ We've been shipping books across North America and around the World, since 1965 ***. Bookseller Inventory # 2176

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