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regshoe ([personal profile] regshoe) wrote2021-09-28 06:22 pm

Imre: A Memorandum on Project Gutenberg

Here it is!.....

Many, many thanks to [personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea and [personal profile] luzula for all your help, support and encouragement. :)

Imre: A Memorandum, privately printed in 1906, is the story of two men—an English gentleman traveller and a Hungarian army officer—who meet in a cafe in a fictionalised Budapest and fall in love. It's a remarkable book! The discussions of Imre and Oswald's backstories and their respective eventual acceptance of their sexuality contain a great deal of detail on contemporary attitudes to and ideas about homosexuality (/similisexualism, Uranianism, etc.); and it's also a very sweet love story, with a decisive happy ending. I recommend it, and I'm especially pleased with having done something to make it more accessible to a wider readership.
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[personal profile] friendofthejabberwock 2021-09-28 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, that sounds really interesting! Definitely going on my to-read list, and thanks for your work to make it accessible.