Imre

Description:

Early moving novel about the meeting of two gay men who gradually fall in love and wind up happily together: a shocker for 1906. Described by the author as "a little psychological romance", the narrative follows two men who by chance meet at a cafe in Budapest, Hungary. Both Oswald, a 30-something British aristocrat, and Imre, a 25-year-old Hungarian military officer, are "insistently masculine types tempered by a love of art". Over the course of several months they forge a friendship that leads to a series of cautious revelations and disclosures, and ultimately love.

subjects: Fiction,  Gay men,  Male friendship,  Fiction, gay,  World war, 1914-1918, fiction,  American literature,  LGBTQ fiction before Stonewall

Places: Budapest (Hungary),  Budapest

Times: 1900