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A Year in Arcadia: Kyllenion (German: Ein Jahr in Arkadien: Kyllenion) is an 1805 novel by Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. It is notable as "the earliest known novel that centers on an explicitly male-male love affair". Overview. A Year in Arcadia is structured as a set of idylls, one for each month of the Attic calendar.
Frommann and Wesselhöft, 1805
1 lug 2015 · A Year in Arcadia: Kyllenion ‹ Literary Hub. By Rebecca Brill. July 1, 2015. Share: More. Rebecca Brill is a writer who lives and studies in Minneapolis. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, Broadly, Lilith, and elsewhere.
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A pseudo-Greek shepherd’s calendar of idylls centering on two male lovers and set in a society in which boy-girl and boy-boy affairs are equally possible, A Year in Arcadia is pervaded by spirited homoeroticism. For such a work there was little precedent in modern European literature.
Kyllenion - Ein Jahr in Arkadien: Duke Augustus of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg: Germany [A Year in Arcadia: Kyllenion] Set in ancient Greece, it features several couples – including a homosexual one – falling in love, overcoming obstacles and living happily ever after. This is his only published work. 1822: Olivier ou le Secret
book by August van Saksen-Gotha-Altenburg. This page was last edited on 28 July 2023, at 01:22. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
With its backdrop of classical Greek mythology, this pastoral fable concerning two handsome shepherds who fall in love is among the first homoerotic works in Europe, and is a forgotten treasure of German literature. Show more. Genres LGBTQueer ClassicsGay. 137 pages, Hardcover. First published January 1, 1805. Book details & editions.
