Status
Available
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Publication
City Lights Publishers (2001), Edition: 1st City Light ed, Paperback, 104 pages
Description
Le Livre Blanc, a "white paper" on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau's contemporary Maurice Sachs and was at once decried as by the critics as obscene. It is now possible to issue it under Cocteau's name. The semi-autobiographical narrative describes a youth's love affairs with a succession of boys and men during the early years of this century. The young man's self-deceptive attempts to find fulfilment, first through women and then by way of the church, are movingly conveyed; the book ends with a strong plea for male homosexuality to be accepted without censure. The book is fully illustrated and includes many woodcuts by the author.
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Original publication date
1928
Physical description
104 p.; 7.7 inches
ISBN
0872862380 / 9780872862388
Local notes
OCLC = 191