by Stephen Spender · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264016041
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«Le temple» is Stephen Spender's novel published in paperback, in French.
The novel follows a young English poet of twenty who travels to Hamburg and journeys along the Rhine with two companions. In Weimar Germany he discovers an atmosphere of friendship, parties, sexuality and body worship that will disappear with the arrival of the Nazis. In the background lie a process of personal awakening and the barely veiled presence of Auden and Isherwood.
Original title: «The Temple» (1988), based on a 1929 manuscript rewritten by the author. Nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Men's Fiction category (1989).
For readers of British literature, LGBT fiction and stories about interwar Europe.
Sir Stephen Harold Spender was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1965.
