6/10/2023 0 Comments Brideshead revisited goodreads![]() ![]() He doesn’t exactly meet a tragic end, as most gay characters were required to do in any work created before, say, 1990. I become obsessed with Sebastian, arguably the first literary manic pixie dream boy, and obsessed with the strange trajectory that his life takes in Waugh’s book. Had my friend known when she inscribed that note that she was giving me one of the queerest books I would ever read? Is it possible that that’s actually why she gave it to me, her little budding lesbian friend? Also, he carried around a teddy bear named Aloysius. Sebastian’s demons had to do with his family, his god, and his alcoholism. Or at least it was more complicated than that. The book was published in 1944, and, with Sebastian, Waugh had created this incredible gay man, who yes, was tortured, but not for his sexuality. The most surprising thing to me about the book was the character of Sebastian, Charles’ best friend at Oxford and the tortured object of his tortured affections. ![]()
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