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Chargement... The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardypar Christopher Isherwood
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. What might seem cloying becomes fascinating. Two adult men addressing one another by pet names as a buffer to the intense feelings of longing, rejection, competition and jealousy in 14 years of a 33 year love affair. The two men were separated for periods during which Bachardy was studying art in England, as Isherwood courageously encouraged him to build a life of his own despite fears of losing him to a lover closer to his own age. Isherwood is perhaps best known as the author of the book on which the musical Cabaret is based. Bachardy may be best known to Californians as the painter of a controversial official portrait of Governor Jerry Brown from his first terms in office. The letters are filled with gossip and news of writers, Hollywood stars, stage actors and artists of the period between 1956 and 1970. Those who read this might look up "Last Drawings of Christopher Isherwood" an amazing set of portraits done as Isherwood lay dying. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"The love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy--in their own words Christopher Isherwood was the celebrated middle-aged English author of Goodbye to Berlin when he met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. Defying convention, the two created an enduring relationship out of that initial spark--living as an openly gay couple for more than three decades in the closeted world of Hollywood. The Animals is the testimony in letters of their extraordinary partnership, which lasted until Isherwood's death in 1986--despite a thirty-year age gap, affairs, jealousies, the pressures of literary fame, and the disdain of twentieth-century America for love between two men. In romantic letters to each other, they invented the private world of the Animals. Chris was Dobbin, a stubborn old workhorse; Don was a rash, spirited white kitten named Kitty. The ability to create a world, a safe and separate milieu, was a great talent of Isherwood's--and a necessary one as a gay man in mid-twentieth-century America. But Isherwood knew how to spread hay around his stable and attract beauty. He drew Bachardy into his semisecret realm and together they invented a place for their love to thrive. Bold, transgressive, and playful, The Animals shows us the devotion between two creative spirits in tenderness and storms"--
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