Becoming a Londoner: A Diary
(Sprache: Englisch)
¿Nikos and I live together as lovers, as everyone knows, and we seem to be accepted because it¿s known that we are lovers. In fact, we are, according to the law, criminals in our making love with each other, but it is as if the laws don¿t apply. It is as if...
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¿Nikos and I live together as lovers, as everyone knows, and we seem to be accepted because it¿s known that we are lovers. In fact, we are, according to the law, criminals in our making love with each other, but it is as if the laws don¿t apply. It is as if all the conventions of sex and clothes and art and music and drink and drugs don¿t apply here in London . . .¿
In the 1960s, strangers to their new city and from the different worlds of New York and Athens, David and Nikos embarked on a life together, a partnership that would endure for forty years. At a moment of ¿absolute respect for differences,¿ London offered a freedom in love unattainable in their previous homes. Friendships with Stephen and Natasha Spender, Francis Bacon, Sonia Orwell, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and David Hockney, and meetings with such Bloomsbury luminaries as E. M. Forster and Duncan Grant, and a developing friendship with Philip Roth living in London with Claire Bloom, opened up worlds within worlds; connections appeared to crisscross, invisibly, through the air, interconnecting everyone.
David Plante has kept a diary of his life for more than half a century. Both a deeply personal memoir and a fascinating and significant work of cultural history, this first volume spans his first twenty years in London, beginning in the mid-sixties, and pieces together fragments of diaries, notes, sketches, and drawings to reveal a beautiful, intimate portrait of a relationship and a luminous evocation of a world of writers, poets, artists, and thinkers.
Autoren-Porträt von David Plante
David Plante is the author of the novels The Ghost of Henry James, The Family (nominated for the National Book Award), The Woods, The Country, The Foreigner, The Native, The Accident, Annunciation and The Age of Terror. He has published stories and profiles in the New Yorker, and features in the New York Times, Esquire and Vogue. He lives in London; Lucca, Italy; and Athens, Greece.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Plante
- 544 Seiten, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- ISBN-10: 1620401886
- ISBN-13: 9781620401880
Sprache:
Englisch
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Love and life among literary lions¿.[Plante is] a crafter of limpid prose, possessed of keen insight and sympathy. He also displays a rare gift for finely wrought characterization. The poet Stephen Spender, an intimate of Plante¿s, vividly emerges from these pages as a profoundly endearing sad-uncle figure, an accomplished man of letters beset by insecurity and furtively hiding his homosexuality from his forceful wife, Natasha. A richly detailed document of the London art scene of the ¿60s and an affecting memoir of the artist as a young man.
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