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Wings

Wings

Kuzmin, Mikhail
Bailey, Paul
Aplin, Hugh

Paperback

Series: Hesperus Modern Voices

Classic FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 184391431X
ISBN13: 9781843914310
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Published: Sep 28 2007
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.41 Width: 4.82 Depth: 7.66
Language: English
A key text in the history of gay literature, Wings was published in 1906 to the scandalized reaction of contemporary society and the generations which followed. Its central theme of aestheticized sensuality has drawn comparisons with the work of contemporaries Oscar Wilde and André Gide. The young Vanya Smurov is deeply attached to his mentor, Dr. Larion Stroop, and to the world of Renaissance art which the latter reveals to him. Initially appalled by the sudden discovery of Stroop's homosexual leanings, Vanya abandons him to pursue a normal heterosexual existence. In turn disgusted by ensuing encounters, he returns to Dr. Stroop and accompanies him to Italy where he begins his real education--both in the world of art, and that of hedonism.

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