The burning library : writings on art, politics and sexuality 1969-1993
White, Edmund, 1940-1994
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This book brings together some of Edmund White's essays, articles and reviews from more than 20 years, and presents a portrait of the writer and his time. The book features interviews, profiles and essays which focus on the literary and cultural figures whose work has most influenced White: Nabokov, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tennesse Williams, Michel Foucault, Pasoline, Roland Barthes, Christopher Isherwood, Truman Capote and Marguerite Yourcenar.;Interweaved with these are a series of articles which illuminate Edmund White's response to the political dimensions of homosexual life - a response that centres on the importance of friendship when AIDS enters the scene.
Main title:
The burning library : writings on art, politics and sexuality 1969-1993 / Edmund White ; edited by David Bergman.
Imprint:
London : Chatto & Windus, 1994.
Collation:
xxvi,385p. ; 25cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780701161682
Dewey class:
818.54
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
382967