Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Leo is an Italian writer in his thirties. Thomas, his German lover, is dead. On a plane to Munich, Thomas's home town, Leo slips into a reverie of their meeting and life in Paris, nights in Thomas's flat in Montmartre and a desperate, drug-induced flight through the forests of northern France that spells the end for Leo and Thomas' languid, erotic life together. Leo travels to England to escape the brute continent and to descend into anonymity. Separate Rooms is a story of almost ideal homosexual love, cruelly broken by absence and separation. When Thomas was alive, he and Leo had separate rooms in order to preserve the urgency of their passion. Now, Leo faces solitude, the impossible striving of memory to recreate life and the hostility of a prejudiced world.
?Pier Vittorio Tondelli was one of the great hopes of contemporary Italian literatureHis imagination, inventiveness and audacity were expressed in a vibrant new language of love and lust in just four novels that revealed his total originality as a writer, thinker and moralist, and as an iconoclast who sang with a harsh and poignant lyricism the passions of homosexual men. Beautifully written, Separate Rooms is a homosexual Romeo and Juliet? James Kirkup ?Separate Rooms is a rare thing, a mature, beautifully written, fully-realized novel about what it means to be a gay man today? Lambda Book Review ?To judge from Separate Rooms...Tondelli?s death deprived us of a singular voice? New York Times Review of Books
Born in the Po Valley in 1955, Pier Vittorio Tondelli died of AIDS in Milan in 1991. The author of four novels and a collection of short stories, Tondelli was recognized as one of the most gifted Italian writers of his generation. Separate Rooms is the only book of Tondelli's fiction to be translated into English.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852422233 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852422238 |
| Title | Separate Rooms |
| Author | Pier Vittorio Tondelli |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Serpent's Tail |
| Year published | 1992-08-15 |
| Number of pages | 190 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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