This is the comical story of Frank Dickin, an impoverished young novelist and his involvement, on the one hand with an eccentic family of Russian emigres, and on the other with an all powerful newspaper magnate.
Responds to the explosion of gay and lesbian creativity on modern-day France. This book seeks to open up 'homotextualities,' understood as constructions and deconstructions of both homosexuality and its environments. It provides an assessment of this approach when dealing with a tradition notoriously discreet about the concept of a gay writer.