Can I read Remembrances of a Gay Old Time on EtoBox?

Remembrances of a Gay Old Time by Edmund White is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Remembrances of a Gay Old Time about?

When I was a kid, I was always puzzled by those passages in the Bible that simply presented genealogies of otherwise unknown people, all those series of begats that seemed so mysterious and unnecessary. 1 But after all I've lived through in the last fifteen years, I understand the imperative need to record names, to keep lists of the dead, to inscribe something about them on a quilt or on the page or on a gravestone. I've come to see that those lists of names, which I used to skip over in the Old Testament and in Homer, far from being some annoying caprice on the part of those first authors (themselves unnamed, paradoxically), are the essence of literature.We are all here to do honor to the memory of our friends. A few of them were writers, even fewer published, but most of them, like people everywhere, even the most powerful, are in danger of being swallowed up by oblivion unless we do something to name them; record their quirks, even their faults; cull a bit of their wisdom; memorialize their pain; do justice to their struggle; capture their moments of bliss.I suppose since most gay people were not brought up by gay families, and most gay families do not bring up queer children,

Author

Edmund White

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN