Le Naufragé
1924
Ménalkas
Amiens: Edgar Malfère
French
Novel
181pp
Gay Men, WWI
Yes, I still think about my friend Marc: the one who was my guide, my advisor: a loving soul, Vaska. . . But I have no hope of finding him. You don't know, when I was in Lucerne, at the start of the war—it was September 14th—well, one night when I went to bed I was seized with horrible anguish. . . I said to myself: Marc has been killed! [...] And it was true: no matter how much I wrote to him, I received nothing more. . .
Summary
"The Shipwreck" in English. Sequel to Ersatz d'Amour. Follows the 1918-1919 German revolution and Carl von Rudorff, who survived the war, looking for the fate of his love, Marc, who did not.
More Info
Written by Suzanne de Callias as Ménalkas.
I suspect, like its prequel, this novel is discussed at length with short translations in Lawrence R. Schehr's French Gay Modernism (2004).
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