Re: RARA-AVIS: marlowe's character

From: Thomas Bauduret ( suspiria@club-internet.fr)
Date: 07 Apr 2002


Wasn't it fashionable, politically correct for a while to draw any kind of cock-a-mamie theory to prove almost any recognised writer was in fact a closet homosexual ? (Except maybe for Oscar Wilde and Proust, hee heeĊ  :)

T.
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>
> It seems to me that any "man's man" type character has had this kind of
> claim made about him by somebody or other. Although I don't necessarily
> dismiss these claims off-hand I really think it's often drawing a long
> bow. Because a character (or author) doesn't have a lot to do with
> women, or he is not comfortable around women or there just aren't many
> female characters of note in a story or any of the other rather tenuous
> reasons cited by "critics" of this bent, it doesn't mean that the
> author (or character) is homosexual. Personally, I feel that the author
> of the article you're referring to is reading his/her own obsessions
> into the text. I've never been a macho, jock type of guy myself, always
> been pretty comfortable with women personally, but I don't believe that
> the more traditionally masculine guys out there are really closet
> queens - undoubtedly a small proportion are but I feel it's a
> non-sequitur to say that because a man is not comfortable with women,
> for example, that he is obviously homosexual even if he doesn't know it.
> I seem to recall someone on this list talking about someone saying that
> Hemingway's THE OLD MAN & THE SEA was "obviously" about a pederastic
> relationship - if you "read between the lines". To which I can only say,
> once again, "huh?". Or, as Dr Freud (allegedly) said, "sometimes a cigar
> is just a cigar".
>
> Rene
>
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