Corydon (book)
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(publ. Nouvelle Revue Française)
Corydon is a book by
ISBN 0-252-07006-2) by the poet Richard Howard
.
The dialogues use evidence from
Elizabethan England. Gide argues this is reflected by writers and artists from Homer and Virgil to Titian and Shakespeare. Gide states that these authors depicted male–male relationships, such as that of Achilles and Patroclus, as homosexual rather than as platonic as other critics insisted. Gide uses this evidence to insist that homosexuality is more fundamental and natural than exclusive heterosexuality
, which he believes is merely a union constructed by society.
Gide considered Corydon to be his most important work. "My friends insist that this little book is of the kind which will do me the greatest harm", he wrote of the book.[2]
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