Ainsi soient-ils

by Neil Bartlett, Gilbert Cohen-Solal (Translator)

A trois heures du matin, au son d'un slow joué a piano, sous un plafond scintillant d'étoiles artificielles, dans le coin le plus sombre d'un bar et sou le regard de tous, deux amants tombent dans le bras l'un de l'autre... L'un est plus âgé et plus sage. L'autre n'a que dix neuf ans. Des premiers baisers à la proclamation de bans, du mariage à l'acte d'amour et à la fondation d'une famille, tout dans cette histoire est à sa plan habituelle.
Sauf que ce mariage est un mariage enté hommes. C'est dans une langue hypnotique et musicale avec un goût rare pour le détail baroque, que Neil Bartlett conte cette fable érotique et morale peuplé, de personnages énigmatiques, cette histoire d'amour fou empreinte de crudité parfois, de romantisme sou vent, mais aussi d'une compassion admirable.

388 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1, 2008

About the author

Born in 1958, Neil Bartlett has spent twenty-five years at the cutting edge of British gay culture. His ground-breaking study of Oscar Wilde, Who Was That Man? paved the way for a queer re-imagining of history ; his first novel, Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall, was voted Capital Gay Book of The Year; his second, Mr Clive and Mr Page, was nominated for the Whitbread Prize. Both have since been translated into five European languages. Listing him as one of the country's fifty most significant gay cultural figures, the Independent said "Brilliant,beautiful, mischievous; few men can match Bartlett for the breadth of his exploration of gay sensibility".

He also works as a director, and in 2000 was awarded an OBE for services to the theatre. He founded his first theatre company in 1982 and is now an "independent theatre-maker and freelance director", continuing to write novels and work as an activist for gay rights.

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