HIS69-076 Deep Dick
Deep Dick
HIS69
(Same as GAY-181)
HIS69-076
Frank Jeffries
(HIS6976)
$1.95
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Foreword
Nobel prize winner Andre Gide was one of the first to advance the theory, through literature, that homosexuality is NOT abnormal behavior. His dialogues in this direction are famous. Paul Goodman, Merle Miller, Tennesse Williams and countless other famous writers have since added to that theory through writing—plays, books, poetry. They have left the biological and scientific studies to others, to doctors like Masters and researchers like Johnson and psychiatrists like Arno Karlen.
Frank Jeffries does the same. He doesn’t attempt to deal with facts and figures, with graphs and studies. He accepts homosexuality, in the form of the characters he has created, and he goes on from there, just as the great Thomas Mann accepted the homosexuality of Gustav von Aschenbach, in Death In Venice, and went on from there. No apologies, no scientific reasons why.
Homosexuality accepted as part of life, as a way of life, the author goes on from there to tell a story, to give us some insight into the hearts and minds of characters—people much like ourselves, like people we know. Identification is the key word to the quality and greatness of any work of fiction—can the reader identify? If he can, there is a lesson to be learned, there is a laugh to be had, a tear to be shed. And the story will be remembered as a universal work, rather than just a mere personal one.
Deep Dick is a universal work, for it deals with a subject which heterosexuals as well as homosexuals can identify with—the search for sexual identity. The book and its characters offer some fresh and interesting observations on the feelings of homosexuality in society and we can easily apply those observations to the future and to ourselves, living in this material world.
Granted, no one will change his opinion about homosexuality after reading this novel—that is not the author’s point. He merely wishes, in the tradition of the best of writers interested in social change, to toss out ideas and let them generate their own force in the reader’s consciousness. Goodman, Miller and Williams have never hit anyone over the head with their beliefs, but they caused a great many minds to start thinking. Frank Jeffries will do the same.
And, even more importantly, he will give the reader greater insight into both himself and his fellow man for having probed the question of sexual identity in such a subtle, fictionalized way.
Many books, loaded with facts and figures and data, will continue to be published. Along with them, let us hope novels like Deep Dick remain equally as plentiful.
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