'Gaston Goor' in OBA Collectie

Largely autobiographical, it deals with an intimate relationship between two boys at a Roman Catholic boarding school and how it is destroyed by a priest's will to protect them from homosexuality.

Daudet imagines a journey undertaken by William Shakespeare at the age of twenty in the Netherlands and Germany to the castle of Helsingør. The journey brings out Shakespeare's awareness of his tragedian skills, provoked, according to the author, by hi...

Roland and Ghislaine are a young couple with unclouded happiness. Or almost, for they have no children, which is very sad. Advised by an old woman, they burn an enormous candle in the chapel erected on an islet of the lake of Aiguebelette. They hope tha...

L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France.

Het boek heeft niet officieel een homoseksueel karakter, maar het gaat over verwaarloosde kinderen in Parijs en daar zijn vele haveloze jongens bij. Dat was het type jongens waar Montherlant op viel en vrijwel iedere middag in het noordelijke gedeelte v...