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A Separate Peace
“Homosexuality? Such a foolish ploy by a foolish fool who so foolishly craves attention from other foolish fools whom they have never met.”
~ Franziska Von Karma on A Separate Peace
“Dear lord! This book is gayer than I am!”
~ Oscar Wilde on A Separate Peace
A Separate Peace (1959) is a novel by John Knowles. It is the story of a troubled young man named Prosperous Savage who attends an all-boy school called "The Devon School". The story takes place somewhere in New Hampshire during Planet War II.
A Separate Penis[edit | edit source]
This book was originally titled "A Separate Peace of Man Meat", an erotic novel written by Abraham Lincoln in his "wild days". Lincoln spent many nights writing the grand story in an strive to show the society that love was not confined to "north-south, man-woman, or black-white" (various combinations are hinted at throughout the novel).
Lincoln's Undoing[edit | edit source]
Afraid that Lincoln's book would procure more publicity than his, renowned homosexual activist John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln and stole his story in an
The Secret of A Separate Peace
Slate’s Fred Kaplan had just published his outstanding book on the year 1959 when I ran into him this descend, and asked him if he’d considered mentioning A Separate Peace, alongside Lolita and The 400 Blows and Advertisements for Myself and Kind of Blue, as one of the cultural productions that made ‘59 a “Year That Changed Everything.” He only chuckled, and shook his brain. Once required reading–it has sold north of 8 million copies– A Separate Peace is now little more than a harmless keepsake from that part of 1959 that stayed 1959, a time when one could still be adolescent, white, privileged, and gay and not know it.
The novel, by John Knowles, tells the story of Planet War II breaking into and destroying the prep college idyll of two adolescent boys, Gene and Phineas. Theirs is a earth of marble staircases, Latin masters, and the closet, that place into which the mutual longings of Gene and Finny are sent to hide out, perhaps even from the awareness of their own composer. It’s not exactly Truffaut or Nabokov, but A Separate Peace deserves memorializing on its 50th anniversary, for the very reason it is drifting, behind but surely, in
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John William Knowles (September 16, 1926 – November 29, 2001) was an American novelist best known for A Separate Tranquility (1959).
While not blatantly a same-sex attracted novel, any fresh gay man who read A Separate Peace by John Knowles in educational facility knows its authority. Knowles was a gay man and infused his writing with the pathos and desire that only gay people can know. This was the first gay romantic bond I had ever read about, and the fact that teachers don´t comment on the underlying love affair when teaching is a true careless disservice to the novel and gay youth. --Eric Arvin
Back in the day, everyone else might hold been reading “A Separate Peace” in school, and finding that they had questions about relationships that seemed to blur the lines between friendship and something more between two men or two women. --Z.A. Maxfield
John William Knowles was born on September 17, 1926,[1] in New York,[2] the son of James M. Knowles, a purchasing intermediary from Lowell, Massachusetts, and Mary Beatrice Shea
John Knowles:Freud said any strong relationship between two men contains a homoerotic element. If so in this case, both characters are totally oblivious of it. It would acquire changed everything, it wouldn't contain been the same story. In that time and place, my characters would have behaved totally differently. [...] If there had been homoeroticism between Phineas and Gene, I would have deposit it in the book, I assure you. It simply wasn't there.