The Narrow Corner - where homosexuality hides

According to his biographers, W. Somerset Maugham was always carefulabout not allowing traces of his homosexuality to get into his novels. However, it seems Maugham was not entirely successful in carrying out this decision of his. At least, this is what can be concluded after reading Gore Vidal'...

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Autor: Furtado, Hélio Dias
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL)
Repositorio:Revista Leitura (Maceió. Online)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:www.seer.ufal.br:article/7333
Acceso en línea:https://www.seer.ufal.br/index.php/revistaleitura/article/view/7333
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Maugham
Homosexuality
The Narrow Corner
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Sumario:According to his biographers, W. Somerset Maugham was always carefulabout not allowing traces of his homosexuality to get into his novels. However, it seems Maugham was not entirely successful in carrying out this decision of his. At least, this is what can be concluded after reading Gore Vidal's Maugham's Half & Half where he points out The Narrow Corner, Maugham's novel published in 1932, as one dealing covertly with the homosexuality theme. Our intention is to conduct a careful analysis of this novel to raise its hidden traces of homosexuality which, in Vidal's view, Maugham is not successful in disguise. DOI: 10.28998/0103-6858.2005v2n36p35-43