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The City and the Pillar

Gore Vidal

Paperback | Pages: 207 pages

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Title	:	The City and the Pillar
Author	:	Gore Vidal
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 207 pages
Published	:	December 2nd 2003 by Vintage (first published January 10th 1948)
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT. Classics. GLBT. Queer. Gay

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A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience.

Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in "awful kid stuff", the experience forms Jim's ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents’ expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship. Along the way he struggles with what he feels is his unique bond with Bob and with his persistent attraction to other men. Upon finally encountering Bob years later, the force of his hopes for a life together leads to a devastating climax. The first novel of its kind to appear on the American literary landscape, The City and the Pillar remains a forthright and uncompromising portrayal of sexual relationships between men.

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Original Title:	The City and the Pillar
ISBN:	1400030374 (ISBN13: 9781400030378)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Paul Sullivan, Maria Verlaine, Jim Willard, Bob Ford, Ronald Shaw
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The story in this book, published in 1948, transcends its time and gives readers a plot of immediate relevance and a protagonist who never apologizes. Especially satisfying is the ending Vidal restored in 1964. It fits the flow of the narrative and deprives the earlier ending of its mandatory homophobia, until recently the price paid for any literary or cinematic treatment of the subject. The novelty of the book was once its characterization of a gay male who doesn't fit the image. The

Vidal's tragic gay love story was no doubt brave and groundbreaking for it's time, but imitators have diminished the story and contemporary readers will likely find the themes cliche. Like so many of his literary contemporaries, the character of Jim struggles to reconcile his physical desires with his yearning to live a "normal" heterosexual life, but Vidal doesn't belabor the point. Instead, he ensconces Jim within the pre-liberation bar scene without defining him by it. Vidal made a concerted

Rtc but I was going to rate this three stars but then that completely unnecessary rape scene happened so nooooooope. Okay, here's the actual review. This book wasn't the best portrayal of homosexuality ever - it was sexist and awful in a way, lesbians apparently only existed as gross stereotypes - but it's an important book nevertheless. It was written in the 40's and I don't feel that this book has aged badly or that it's dated; rather it shows what life was like, used to be like. And again I

... Oooooof.This one's gonna leave a bruise. I don't usually go for the kind of spare, direct style, but this just cuts so close to home that no ornamentation of philosophizing is really needed. Jim's wishful delusions about sexuality - early on, that he's not quite so queer, and later on that everyone else isn't quite so straight - are painfully evocative of a couple-year period in my own life. So too was the weird noble-feeling but ultimately self-denying ideal of the Twin/Brother-Lover, with

Ughhh...I see why this was important for its time, but you know what? Go check out James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room which came out in the same time period but was unpublishable in the US because publishers didn't believe that readers would accept a black author writing about homosexuality. I mean, unless you haven't read enough stories about gay men being ashamed of who they are. In that case maybe Vidal's your cup of tea. Masculine tea, certainly, because femininity is just gross here. Or, uh,

"When the eyes are shut, the true world begins."A haunting book. Written in straight forward prose (though I have added quotations that exemplify some lovely flourishes), this is the tale of a pre-Stonewall gay. Jim discovers his love for a boy in high school which puts his life on a different path than everyone else he knows. He travels, meets some other people, and holds on to his early love. Not much more to say without giving away the plot.Published in 1948, this is an incredible text. A

A gothic period piece that's still a bit shocking. Next to Julian it's my favorite novel by Vidal and in certain moods, my favorite.