The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal

The City and the Pillar



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ISBN: 9781400030378
Page: 240
Format: pdf
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group


In 1948, his novel The City and the Pillar, with its overtly homoerotic theme, was pilloried by The New York Times. To make a living, Vidal started writing for television, theater and film. The New York Times refused to review his next five books. The City and the Pillar was the first gay novel that I read, unaware that it had practically killed his career in the 1950s, forcing him to work under pseudonyms. Charles McGrath notes some of the impetus for this hatred in the obituary itself: the fallout from his 1948 book The City and the Pillar: "Mr. Our Gay section on Amazon is I'd say 98% not Kindled yet, in time we are going to see publishers running to get their books into the ebook formats. His masterpiece novel, The City and the Pillar, published in 1948, was the first mainstream novel in the United States to explicitly approach the subject of homosexuality. He chose to serve Jimmy Trimble, a teenager with whom he fell in love in boarding school and who provided inspiration for The City and the Pillar, and in doing so betrayed the bigotry of American society. His third novel, The City and the Pillar, featured a homosexual as a main character and bookshops refused to stock it. Meanwhile his third novel, published in 1948, featured homosexuality (The City and The Pillar), and in 1968 he published Myra Breckenridge, a satirical comedy about a transsexual. On the Augustinerplatz in the center of the city, a perplex pillar spreads colorful. Since 2009 the city of Freiburg in South Germany has a tolerance zone. He was even forced to work under pseudonyms during the 1950s.





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