Forman Brown (1901–1996)
Auteur van Better Angel
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Werken van Forman Brown
Punch's Progress 3 exemplaren
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The Reviewer, Volume V, Numbers 1-4 (Jan-Oct 1925) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Brown, Forman
- Officiële naam
- Brown, Forman
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Meeker, Richard
- Geboortedatum
- 1901-01-08
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1996-01-10
- Geslacht
- male
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- USA
- Opleiding
- University of Michigan
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- 1
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- 197
- Populariteit
- #111,410
- Waardering
- 4.1
- Besprekingen
- 4
- ISBNs
- 7
- Talen
- 1
Nothing so rich, so filling, so troubling, so goading, could be evil. The world might say what it chose. "He is my lover! He is my lover!" He longed to shout it from the roof-tops — "Behold, world, my lover!" He wept in the grass by the roadside for the blindness, the unfeeling stupidity, the unfairness of the world. He hated them all, the scoffers, the leaden-eyed. He throbbed with the music of rebellion and youth. He clutched his fingers in the cool dark sod and exhausted himself with weeping."
An incredibly important book in queer literature, I have seen this book (amongst others) being described as the first positively gay book. We follow Kurt as he discovers and accepts his sexuality. As a child raised in a religious household, he has always been taught that it's a sin, but he learns how to love fully and truly.
I can only imagine how incredible it must have been to have come across this book as a gay man after it was published (in 1933) and being able to see gay love portrayed as the beautiful thing it is, rather than as the abomination it was taught as. I'm sue this would have helped many man along their own journey of accepting themselves. I did find some parts of the book a little slow (although I'm neither religious nor a musician or in the arts) but I did love seeing Kurt's growth and seeing how his relationship and comfort with men grew over the course of the book. Definitely worth a read (or listen), especially if you are interested in the beginnings of LGBTQ literature… (meer)