by Stephen Spender · Faber Faber Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571154579
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«The Temple» is the novel by Stephen Spender, published by Faber Faber Inc in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Novel with autobiographical background: a young English poet of twenty spends a holiday in Hamburg in 1929 and then travels down the Rhine with two companions. Among bathers, parties and friendships, he discovers the freedom and carefree spirit of the Weimar Republic, a world on the verge of disappearing under Nazism.
The novel, published in 1989, was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Men's Fiction category.
For readers interested in British literature, queer-themed fiction and the cultural atmosphere of the Weimar Republic.
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.
