The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal

The City and the Pillar



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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Page: 240
ISBN: 9781400030378
Format: pdf


During these meetings, which occurred over the last 20 years of his life, his motor control was not the best. Like any self-respecting American who considers himself even the slightest but literarily inclined, I was already a fan of Vidal's work. An iconoclast ahead of his time, he candidly wrote about homosexuality in an early novel, The City and the Pillar, which got him blacklisted by book critics at the New York Times. More than once, I was in the august presence of Hunter Thompson. But I probably wasn't ready to read it then. Perhaps the hysterical reaction to The City and the Pillar was what started a long process of alienation from the Establishment into which Vidal had been born. Inthakin also known as Sai Khan Dok – บูชาเสาอินทขีล worship of the city pillar – ประเพณี tradition of ใส่ขันดอก flower offering to the อินทขิล pillar – is a festival held every year in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It is a uniquely Chiang Mai Festival. His first success, though, was his third novel, "The City and The Pillar," published in 1948. In any case, I never felt Vidal's sexuality was the point: he told us as much about his romantic life in his first novel, “Williwaw,” and in “The City and the Pillar,” as I find necessary. Its main character, Jim Willard, is an open homosexual who serves in World War II. Bernard Levin described Vidal's third novel, The City and The Pillar, published in 1948 when he was 23 and written two years before as the “first serious American homosexual novel”. I wanted to do a professional job and ask good, thoughtful, intelligent questions. Writing with a pen required extreme. Just finished Gore Vidal's “The City and the Pillar,” a novel to which I should have treated myself years ago. On Alexius's recommendation, we read the book, a source of escape for Alexius.





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