Classics of slashiness

[buggery]

While looking for, and failing to find, another book entirely, this morning (The Grey Mane of Morning, incidentally, and if anyone out there in LJland has their own copy handy and could look something up for me, I would love you forever and write you Mor'anh/Hran slash), I came across my dusty, long-neglected paperback edition of Herman Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund.

And I had to wonder -- am I the only one who found the book (Hesse's, though actually Chant's can easily be read that way as well) just drenched in slashiness and general homoerotic subtext?

::pokes at slash goggles:: I think they've grown right into my head...

Comments

[vf-weasel.livejournal.com]

You're definitely not the only one. The homoerotic subtext was so blatant to me, it seemed almost intentional - although I doubt it is.

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[buggery.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know. It's hard to believe subtext that intense and pervasive could be accidental. My feeling was always that it was unconsciously intended, if it wasn't deliberate.

[spykeraven.livejournal.com]

And I had to wonder -- am I the only one who found the book (Hesse's, though actually Chant's can easily be read that way as well) just drenched in slashiness and general homoerotic subtext?

No! Me too!

Wow, at last, someone else who read the book!

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[buggery.livejournal.com]

I do know of other people who've read it... but only because it was assigned reading for an academic course, and none of them were exactly fans after having to read it.

At last, other people who see the slash!

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[spykeraven.livejournal.com]

See the text, you mean. :-)

[the-legion2012.livejournal.com]

omg. somebody else who has read that book?!?! talk about homoerotic. a lot of it isn't even subtext, it's right there on the page. have you read demian? that's pretty amazing too, and there's even a kiss, even though it's not as overtly homoerotic as narcissus. go figure. hesse... i don't know what to think. love the guy, though.