After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans’ hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. As they find solace and companionship together in the idyllic surroundings of the hospital, their friendship blooms into a discreet, chaste romance. Then one day, Ralph Lanyon, a mentor from Laurie’s schoolboy days, suddenly reappears in Laurie’s life, and draws him into a tight-knit social circle of world-weary gay men. Laurie is forced to choose between the sweet ideals of innocence and the distinct pleasures of experience. Originally published in the United States in 1959, The Charioteer is a bold, unapologetic portrayal of male homosexuality during World War II that stands with Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar and Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories as a monumental work in gay literature.
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The Charioteer
von Mary Renault
After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans’ hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. As they find solace and companionship together in the idyllic surroundings of the hospital, their friendship blooms into a discreet, chaste romance. Then one day, Ralph Lanyon, a mentor from Laurie’s schoolboy days, suddenly reappears in Laurie’s life, and draws him into a tight-knit social circle of world-weary gay men. Laurie is forced to choose between the sweet ideals of innocence and the distinct pleasures of experience. Originally published in the United States in 1959, The Charioteer is a bold, unapologetic portrayal of male homosexuality during World War II that stands with Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar and Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories as a monumental work in gay literature.
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Rezension von kenthe book notes channel on my personal discord server is filled to the brim with quotations from THE CHARIOTEER because it’s so resonant. like yelling down to the bottom of the well and the well echoes back with truths that leave you choked up. i’ve read a mary renault book before. i think it was... the friendly young ladies but it wasn’t as good as the charioteer. or it’s just the headspace? i might try to read friendly young ladies again. i lingered too long with this book because it had this air of oppressive silences where things are kept vague that if you don’t pay attention or maybe have little intuition in regards to particular sensitivities, the book won’t mean much to one. but reading the charioteer feels decadent and sparse at once. i cannot fathom how it’s done, stylistically, but i adore it. i lingered too, because i saw too much of myself in the book in too short a time. and i’ve always loathed looking at mirrors.