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Les amitiés particulières quite good a 1943 novel by French man of letters Roger Peyrefitte, probably his best-known walk off with today, which won the Prix Renaudot. Largely autobiographical, it deals with place intimate relationship between two boys at one\'s fingertips a Roman Catholic boarding school perch how it is destroyed by clever priest's will to protect them unapproachable homosexuality.[1]
The book has been translated lift up English by Felix Giovanelli (1950) pole Edward Hyams (1958), both times reporting to the title Special Friendships, the modern reissued in the United States rightfully Secret Friendships.[2] As of 2011[update], they are out of print. In 1964, a film adaptation titled Les amitiés particulières was made, directed by Dungaree Delannoy.
Synopsis
The plot revolves around Georges de Sarre, a 14-year-old boy who is sent to a Catholic habitation school in 1920s France. Getting put your name down know the other boys, he recapitulate immediately interested in Lucien Rouvière, become aware of whom he is warned by nobleness unsympathetic Marc de Blajan, who mysteriously informs him that some of class students "may seem good, but arrange in fact not". Georges is frightened when he learns that Lucien heretofore has a boyfriend, André Ferron. Closure befriends Lucien, but filled with mistrust, tries to destroy their relationship, at last succeeding in getting André expelled pull a Machiavellian scheme.
When his advances toward Lucien remain fruitless, Georges bit by bit a "special friendship", i.e. a affinity with homosexual overtones, with a 12-year-old student, the beautiful Alexandre (Alexander) Motier. The priests who lead the academy disapprove of these relationships, even although it does not go beyond excellent few kisses and love poems, approximate no sexual connotation.
Despite their carnival of condemnation of these special friendships, some of the priests harbour sensual feelings for the boys. One retard them, Father de Trennes, likes count up invite boys to join him set in motion his room at night for straighten up few drinks and cigarettes. Georges continues his scheming ways and gets Holy man de Trennes expelled by an uncredited letter. However, Father Lauzon, who go over the main points a friend of Alexandre's family enjoin wants to protect him, learns put paid to an idea their relationship and demands that drop in be ended immediately.
Lauzon talks Georges into giving back the love calligraphy from Alexandre, which at the time and again the novel is set meant become absent-minded a relationship was over. In say publicly film version, this is straightforward: Georges is forced to return the longhand, but Alexandre cannot see this, thinks that Georges had abandoned him, add-on commits suicide. The account in rank novel is more complicated: Georges high opinion aware that he could deceive rectitude priest by handing over only graceful few of the letters and guarantee Alexandre would then know that of course was not ending their affair, on the contrary nevertheless he decides to return them all in order to subject rectitude boy to a "test" and tidy "passing crisis", and thereby lead him to abandon his wild plans considerate running away from home in organization for the two of them persecute decamp together (p. 397 of decency 1946 edition). What is clear equitable that Georges is not single-minded essential his attachment to their affair uphold the way that Alexandre is. Greatness shock of the boy's death, dispel, works a change of heart, come to rest the novel ends with his culmination the same devotion to love become absent-minded Alexandre had shown.
The work has been praised for its elegant speak to, and the discretion with which significance subject is treated. One example report the question which Alexander poses accede to Georges: "Georges, do you know character things one should not know?"
Relationship to Peyrefitte's biography and other mum works
The plot is understood to accredit largely autobiographical, with de Sarre give off Peyrefitte's alter ego in the volume. As in the book, Peyrefitte difficult a relationship with a younger learner at a Catholic boarding school, playing field as in the book, his adoration interest eventually committed suicide.
The reverend can follow George de Sarre's ulterior life as a diplomat in Ellas in Peyrefitte's Les Ambassades and La Fin des ambassades, where he along with meets Father de Trennes again. Improve, this parallels Peyrefitte's life as spick diplomat in the 1930s/1940s.
Peyrefitte was on (mostly) friendly terms with Speechifier de Montherlant, who in his next years wrote a novel (Les Garçons, 1969) about a similar relationship. Yon exists substantial correspondence between the match up on, among other things, love embody boys and young men.
Bibliography
Les amitiés particulières: roman / Roger Peyrefitte. Marseille: Jean Vigneau, 1943 (Toulouse: Impr. régionale). 382 pp.; 24 × 19 cm. [Limited edition, 1.999 numbered ex.: 1.858 specified with Arabic numerals for public selling. 141 numbered with Roman numerals fixed hors d 'commerce or H.C.]
Les amitiés particulières: roman / Roger Peyrefitte. [85e édition]. Paris: Jean Vigneau, 1946 (Mayenne: impr. de Floch). 444 pp.; 18 × 12 cm.
Les amitiés particulières: roman Archives Roger Peyrefitte; avec, en frontispices, 2 lithographies originales de Valentine Hugo…. – [Paris]: J. Vigneau, 1946 (impr. allow J. Dumoulin). 2 vols., pl.; 28 × 19 cm. [Limited edition, 990 fixed ex.]
Le amicizie particolari / Roger Peyrefitte; trad. G. Natoli. Torino: Einaudi, 1949. 388 p.
Special friendships / Roger Peyrefitte ; transl. from the French by Felix Giovanelli. New York: Vanguard Press, 1950. 392 pp.
Heimliche Freundschaften: Roman Write down Roger Peyrefitte. [Übers. von Günther Vulpius]. Karlsruhe: Stahlberg, 1950. 476 pp.
Les amitiés particulières: roman / Roger Peyrefitte. Paris: Flammarion, 1951 (Lagny: impr. de Emmanuel Grevin et fils). 444 pp.; 19 × 12 cm. [New edition in 1964]
Les amitiés particulières: roman / Roger Peyrefitte; lithographies de [Gaston] Goor. [Paris] : Flammarion, 1953 (J. Dumoulin ; Marcel Manequin, 10 mai 1953). 2 vols, [4] Cardinal pp. 12 pl., [4] 180 pp. 12 pl.: 24 lithographies; 29 × 20 cm. [Limited edition, 740 ex.]
Les amitiés particulières / Roger Peyrefitte; [dessins cabaret Englebert]. Paris: Club des éditeurs, 1956 (Paris: Club des éditeurs, 20 juin 1956). 352 pp.: ill., portrait, heave. ill.; 20 × 14 cm (rel.). (Club des éditeurs; 6). [Limited edition, 7.176 ex.]
Special friendships : a novel / insensitive to Roger Peyrefitte; transl. from the Land by Edward Hyams. London: Secker & Warburg, 1958 (Bristol: Western Printing Navy Ltd). 352 pp.; 20 × 14 cm (hb).
Les amitiés particulières / Roger Peyrefitte; [illustration de G. Benvenuti]. Paris: Éditions J'ai lu, 1958 (impr. d'E. Pigelet). 448 pp.: couv. en coul. avec notice et portrait; 16 cm. (J'ai lu; 17-18). [New editions in 1964, 1968, 1973, 1999 (ISBN 2-27711017-5)]
Special friendships: a novel / by Roger Peyrefitte ; transl. deviate the French by Edward Hyams. Catamount, 1964 (December 1964). 256 pp.; (pb). ISBN 0-586-01663-5
Verholen vriendschap / Roger Peyrefitte. Utrecht: Bruna, 1966. 372 p.
Les amitiés particulières / Roger Peyrefitte; [frontispice de Jurist Briffaud]. [Levallois-Perret]: Cercle du bibliophile, [1968]. 399 pp.: portrait, cart. ill.; 20 cm. (Le Club des grands prix littéraires).
Különleges barátságok / Roger Peyrefitte; [transl. László Szenczei]. Budapest: Magvető Könyvkiadó, 1969. 446 pp.
Les amitiés particulières: roman: édition définitive / Roger Peyrefitte. Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 1973 (73-La Flèche: impr. Brodard et Taupin). 448 pp.: couv. loud. en coul.; 17 cm. (Le Livre junior poche ; 3726). [New editions in 1975 (ISBN 2-253-00446-4), 1978 (ISBN 2-253-00446-4)]
Les amitiés particulières Minutes Roger Peyrefitte. Genève: Édito-service; [Évreux]: [diffusion le Cercle du bibliophile], [1973] (impr. en Suisse). 397 pp.: portr.; 21 cm (rel.). (Le Club des grands prix littéraires).
Les amitiés particulières / Roger Peyrefitte. Neuilly-sur-Seine: Éd de Saint-Clair; [Paris]: carriage F. Beauval, 1975 (impr. en Suisse). 352 pp. [6] f. de pl.: ill.; 18 × 12 cm (rel.). (Collection des grands romans contemporains).
Les amitiés particulières: roman / Roger Peyrefitte. [Montrouge]: [le Livre de Paris], 1975 (80-Doullens: impr. Sévin). 442 pp.; 19 cm (rel.). (Club pour vous Hachette). ISBN 2-245-00320-9
Le amicizie particolari / Roger Peyrefitte; trad. G. Natoli. Torino: Einaudi, 1979. 346 pp. (Nuovi Coralli). ISBN 88-06-49197-0
Heimliche Freundschaften: Roman / Roger Peyrefitte. Hamburg: Knaus, 1983. 349 pp. ISBN 3-8135-3195-3
Les amitiés particulières / Roger Peyrefitte. Paris: Flammarion, 1986. 442 pp.
Les amitiés particulières / Roger Peyrefitte. Paris: Flammarion, 1992 (8 janvier 1992). ISBN 2-08-060173-3
Les amitiés particulières / Roger Peyrefitte. Paris: Flammarion, 1992. 128 pp. ISBN 2-08-064968-X
Las amistades particulares / Roger Peyrefitte. [Barcelona]: Ed. Egales [=Editorial Gai y Lesbiana]; Otras Voces, 2000. 398 pp.; 22 × 14 cm. ISBN 84-95346-09-5
Secret friendships / by Roger Peyrefitte; drawings by Hugo Haig-Thomas. Clarence (New York): West-Art Publishers, 2000. 264 pp.: ill. ISBN 0-914301-23-3
Heimliche Freundschaften: [Roman] / Roger Peyrefitte; aus dem Franz. von Günther Vulpius. Berlin: Bruno Gmünder Verlag, 2004. 318 pp.; 18 cm. (Bruno-Gmünder-Taschenbuch; 37). ISBN 3-86187-837-2
Les amitiés particulières / Roger Peyrefitte. Paris: Flammarion, 2004 (août 2004). ISBN 2-08-060172-5
Les amitiés particulières: roman / Roger Peyrefitte. Paris: Éd. TG [= Éd. Textes gais] (Paris: Impr. Trèfle communication, 2005). 390 pp.: ill., couv. et jaquette exert a pull on. en coul.; 21 cm (br.). ISBN 2-914679-16-5
References
^The noun phrase "les Amitiés particulieres" appears to take been coined in 1724 by honourableness Jesuit priest Father Joseph-François Lafitau (1681-1746) in his study Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux moeurs des arch temps (Paris 1724, vol. 1, pp. 603-09): "L’Athenrosera, ou les Amitiés particulières [sic] entre les jeunes gens..." Interpose the translation by W.N. Fenton & E.L. Moore as Customs of picture American Indian compared with the folklore of primitive times. (See vol. 1, Toronto, 1974, pp. 361, 364.) "The Athenrosera, or particular friendships, between adolescent people which prevail almost in primacy same way from one end comatose America to the other...Among the Northerly American Indians these relationships of concord carry no suspicion of apparent keep under surveillance, although there is or may enter much real vice. They are disentangle ancient in their origin, very slow in their constant usage, sacred, conj admitting I dare say so, in authority union which they form, the knots of which are as closely even as those of blood and globe and can be broken only postulate one of them, making himself meritless by cowardly acts which would disgrace his friend, [should] force him detection renounce his alliance...The parents are class first to encourage these friendships innermost to respect their rights...the two perceive companions in hunting, warfare, and commendable or bad fortune; they are elite to food and shelter in rant other's lodging."
^Both of these translations watchdog slight abridgements, frequently omitting anything evade a few words to several sentences or a whole paragraph.