Le Livre Blanc

Le Livre Blanc by Cocteau, Jean. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780720615128.

A classic of gay literature, featuring the authors original woodcut illustrations, is reissued for the 50th anniversary of Cocteaus death in 1963 Le Livre Blanc, a "white paper" on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteaus contemporary Maurice Sachs, and was at once decried as by the critics as obscene. The semiautobiographical narrative describes a youths love affairs with a succession of boys and men during the 1900s. The young mans self-deceptive attempts to find fulfillment, first through women and then by way of the church, are movingly conveyed; the book ends with a strong plea for male homosexuality to be accepted without censure. The book is fully illustrated and includes many woodcuts by the author.