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Chargement... Jews Queers Germans: A Novel/Historypar Martin Duberman
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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. "I have the common sense!" the man shoots back. "Society tells women that they're incapable of understanding math and science, but that doesn't make it true - look at Marie Curie!" It does feel a bit weird to have my quote for this book be about feminism rather than LGBT as it is mostly about gay history. But it also feels right - because the most important thing this book has taught me is that both feminism and gay rights were topics way before Stonewall - something we easily forget since the general history media tends to act like LGBT movements and hell, LGBT people, popped into history with the Stonewall riots. Now, I've always known it wasn't the case but it's always nice when books like Jews Queers Germans actually discuss the early LGBT movements. The book is a weird mix of a novel and a history book, which makes me reculant to claim it as too much of a source when it comes to the non-fiction of it all - but there is no question that I was taught a lot about things during my read. Not just about the actually flourising LGBT culture in Germany before WWII but also LGBT historical figures that I at the most knew by name, like Hirschfeld. It was an interesting read, and a really interesting view into the LGBT movements of the late 19th century and early 20th century - especially as Germany lies relatively close both culturally and politically. I don't know. The mix of non-fiction and fiction makes me a bit unsure how to view the book, but it is nonetheless a good read for its LGBT history. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"A breathtaking historical novel that recreates the intimate milieu around Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm from 1907 through the 1930s, a period of great human suffering and destruction and also of enormous freedom and creativity, a time when the remnants and artifices of the old word still mattered, and yet when art and the social sciences were pirouetting with successive revolutions in thought and style. Set in a time when many men in the upper classes in Europe were gay, but could not be so publicly, Jews Queers Germans revolves around three men: Prince Philipp von Eulenburg, Kaiser Wilhelm II's closest friend, who becomes the subject of a notorious 1907 trial for homosexuality; Magnus Hirschfeld, a famed, Jewish sexologist who gives testimony at the trial; and Count Harry Kessler, a leading proponent of modernism, and the keeper of a famous set of diaries which lay out in intimate detail the major social, artistic and political events of the day and allude as well to his own homosexuality. The central theme here is the gay life of a very upper crust intellectual milieu that had a real impact on the major political upheavals that would shape the modern world forever after"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It wasn't bad though, if a bit boring, and I'm really glad I read it. Even if Duberman's prose feels a bit juvenile (which I don't blame him for, coming from decades of history work), I did find myself in the minds of the men and began to understand who they were as people. This is especially true of Magnus Hirschfeld, who I'm so glad I was introduced biographically to by the book (what a cool, cool, modern guy). The transition from traditional history to prose was a bit awkward at times and the prose never really came alive for me, but I mean heck — the subject manner is niche and probably the more interesting biographies of these men.
So for that, it's four stars. I wish more books showed history in this capacity to bring it alive for readers and even if this book fell short of it, the passion was there. Depending on my mood, I'd maybe even read it again. ( )