{"id":42766,"date":"2026-09-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/never-say-i-by-michael-lucey\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T00:00:00","slug":"never-say-i-by-michael-lucey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/never-say-i-by-michael-lucey\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Say I by Michael Lucey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\r\n\r\nMichael Lucey shows how representations of same-sex sexuality shaped the evolution of twentieth-century French prose. Rethinking the work of Marcel Proust, Andr\u00e9 Gide and Colette, he examines how each created a first-person voice able to speak about same-sex desire, and how their writing gave form to social groups only slowly gaining public recognition. 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