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4 Books by Roger Peyrefitte
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Overview: Mr. Peyrefitte's first novel, ''Les Amities Particulieres,'' or ''Special Friendships,'' was his best known. A semi-autobiographical story about homosexual love affairs in a French boarding school, it won the prestigious Renaudot Prize in 1945. He also earned some acclaim later for a three-volume biography of Alexander the Great.
Nonetheless, he often seemed happiest as a literary agent provocateur, using a graceful pen, wit, satire and often explicit sexual descriptions to satisfy ''his immoderate and narcissistic taste for scandal,'' as Philippe Lancon put it in his obituary of Mr. Peyrefitte in Liberation, the left-of-center French daily newspaper.
Born in Castres in southwestern France on Aug. 17, 1907, Mr. Peyrefitte studied in Roman Catholic schools as a teenager and then graduated from the Institute of Political Science in Paris before entering the diplomatic service in 1931. His first posting took him to Athens.
He returned to Paris in 1936 and held various minor posts in the government until 1945, when he was dismissed from public service.
The success of ''Special Friendships'' (denounced by Francois Mauriac as ''disgusting'') enabled him to dedicate himself entirely to writing.
Drawing on his experiences as a diplomat, he wrote a series of satirical novels about life in the French foreign service, including ''Les Ambassades'' (''Diplomatic Diversions'') and ''La Fin des Ambassades'' (''Diplomatic Conclusions'').
He caused still further outrage with two books on the inner workings of the Vatican, ''Les Clefs de Saint-Pierre'' (''The Keys of St. Peter'') and ''Les Chevaliers de Malta'' (''The Knights of Malta''), following them with public denunciations of Pope Paul VI for his condemnation of homosexuality.
''Often they call me 'the Pope of Homosexuality,' '' Mr. Peyrefitte once boasted.
In the 1960's he wrote three novels, ''The Jews,'' ''The Americans'' and ''The French,'' which included much gossip about prominent figures in the groups they described.
''The Jews'' prompted charges of anti-Semitism from prominent French Jews; ''The Americans'' resulted in a libel suit brought by Marlene Dietrich; and ''The French'' provoked anger in intellectual circles for its unpleasant portraits of several leading writers.
His desire to proclaim his homosexuality was never clearer than in his publication of his correspondence with Henri de Montherlant, a fellow gay writer.
Published in 1983 after Montherlant's death, the letters dwell at length on their homosexual activities and yearnings for the pleasures of young men.
Indeed, in the second volume of his biography of Voltaire, published in 1992, he even asserted that Frederick the Great of Prussia had seduced the young Voltaire. The claim was ridiculed by French historians, but Mr. Peyrefitte had once again become the focus of polemics.
Genre: Fiction / MM / Romance
Les amitiés particulières (Special Friendships) - (1950, 1958 Hyams translation)
Les amitiés particulières (Special Friendships) is a 1943 novel by French writer Roger Peyrefitte, probably his best known work today, which won the coveted prix Renaudot. Largely autobiographical, it deals with an intimate relationship between two boys at a Roman Catholic boarding school and how it is destroyed by a priest's will to protect them from homosexuality. The book has been translated into English by Felix Giovanelli (1950) and Edward Hyams (1958) both under the title Special Friendships and the latter was reissued in the United States as Secret Friendships. As of 2011, they are out of print. In 1964 a film adaptation, Les amitiés particulières, was made, directed by Jean Delannoy.
The Exile of Capri (1959)
The Exile of Capri was first published in 1959, and it at once become a great and very influential classic of gay literature. It takes the form of a biography of Count Jacques d'Adelsward-Fersen, the most notorious libertine of pre-1914 Europe, under whose patronage Capri became a refuge for the sexually persecuted. A host of giant figures throng the pages of this witty, compassionate and brilliantly funny book.
Notre Amour (Our Love) - Roger Peyrefitte (first published 1967)
The book is about the (sexual)relationship between Roger Peyrefitte and a fourteen-year-old lyceum student. It is autobiographical; the boy in the book stands for Alain-Philippe Malagnac de Argens de Villele, whom the author fell in love with during the shooting of the movie 'Les amitiés particulières' in 1964. The relationship lasted to the death of Alain in the year 2000.
In 'Our love' we see a man-boy relationship, which is endangered by the illness of the boy, the secrecy that must be kept towards the outside world, the beautiful boys the boy meets during his holiday, a fountain-pen, a loan of one hundred and fifty thousand francs and finally, the boy's insecurity. But Love survives in the end!
Roy - Roger Peyrefitte (1979) (translated into English for the first time)
Roy Clear, a young Californian almost fourteen years old, discovers pleasure... That is the main theme of this new novel by Roger Peyrefitte, which brings out the astonishing contrast between the moral freedom of the young and the conformism, or hypocrisy, of those around them.
We are in 1977-78. Roy, a boy from the highest social class, lives in Beverly Hills, the wealthiest area of Los Angeles - which is to say of the United States; and he is a student at the elegant high school there, having come up from the very chic Buckley school...
It is with men, boys, and one girl that he discovers pleasure - and indeed all the pleasures that most deviate from the orthodox. Sex, drugs, money, violence and religiosity (the famous Californian cults) mingle in these pages, just as they are indissolubly mingled in American life. A world both troubled and troubling, at times rendered more appalling by the magnificent Southern Californian setting.
Owing to the exactitude of its reports of public events, the book serves also as a contemporary chronicle, the accuracy of which will come as no surprise to Roger Peyrefitte's readers. And finally, they will find that the scarcely credible daring of many scenes will, because of the ages of the principal characters and the intensity of their school life, form a kind of counterpoise to his earlier book Les Amitiés Particulières (Special Friendships).
Roy is an example of erotic literature. But in spite of that it remains the book of a moralist, since it ends with the triumph of a certain moral attitude... "Peyrefitte writes in the way that Ingres drew", said Jane Albert Hesse. Never has the nimble grace of his pen been as necessary, and as admirable.
Nevertheless, those susceptible to shock are advised not to follow him into this terrain where, in order to portray a young Californian of to-day, he wished to avail himself of all the resources of an uncompromising liberty.
Download Instructions Les amitiés particulières (Special Friendships):
(Closed Filehost) https://ul.to/wunbut3e
Mirror:
https://ulozto.net/file/kZxjLohiPiSt/sf-rp-zip
Download Instructions "The Exile of Capri"
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Mirror:
https://ulozto.net/file/kfgXpzfOEmh6/teoc-rp-zip
Download Instructions: "Notre Amour" (387 kb)
(Closed Filehost) https://ul.to/tcdypifj
Mirror:
https://ulozto.net/file/JbziKEQYLePo/na-rp-rar
Download instructions: "Roy" (3.2 Mb)
(Closed Filehost) https://ul.to/uzhegwiv
Mirror:
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Les Amitiés Particulières [aka "Special Friendships"] by Roger Peyrefitte [Flammarion Illustrated Edition] (1953)
http://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1295&t=2013292
Edit: 13 May 2021 Added new links for Special Friendships, Exile of Capri, and Roy.
Edit: 14 May 2021 Added new links for "Notre Amour"
Requirements: MOBI / ePUB reader, 4.2 Mb
Overview: Mr. Peyrefitte's first novel, ''Les Amities Particulieres,'' or ''Special Friendships,'' was his best known. A semi-autobiographical story about homosexual love affairs in a French boarding school, it won the prestigious Renaudot Prize in 1945. He also earned some acclaim later for a three-volume biography of Alexander the Great.
Nonetheless, he often seemed happiest as a literary agent provocateur, using a graceful pen, wit, satire and often explicit sexual descriptions to satisfy ''his immoderate and narcissistic taste for scandal,'' as Philippe Lancon put it in his obituary of Mr. Peyrefitte in Liberation, the left-of-center French daily newspaper.
Born in Castres in southwestern France on Aug. 17, 1907, Mr. Peyrefitte studied in Roman Catholic schools as a teenager and then graduated from the Institute of Political Science in Paris before entering the diplomatic service in 1931. His first posting took him to Athens.
He returned to Paris in 1936 and held various minor posts in the government until 1945, when he was dismissed from public service.
The success of ''Special Friendships'' (denounced by Francois Mauriac as ''disgusting'') enabled him to dedicate himself entirely to writing.
Drawing on his experiences as a diplomat, he wrote a series of satirical novels about life in the French foreign service, including ''Les Ambassades'' (''Diplomatic Diversions'') and ''La Fin des Ambassades'' (''Diplomatic Conclusions'').
He caused still further outrage with two books on the inner workings of the Vatican, ''Les Clefs de Saint-Pierre'' (''The Keys of St. Peter'') and ''Les Chevaliers de Malta'' (''The Knights of Malta''), following them with public denunciations of Pope Paul VI for his condemnation of homosexuality.
''Often they call me 'the Pope of Homosexuality,' '' Mr. Peyrefitte once boasted.
In the 1960's he wrote three novels, ''The Jews,'' ''The Americans'' and ''The French,'' which included much gossip about prominent figures in the groups they described.
''The Jews'' prompted charges of anti-Semitism from prominent French Jews; ''The Americans'' resulted in a libel suit brought by Marlene Dietrich; and ''The French'' provoked anger in intellectual circles for its unpleasant portraits of several leading writers.
His desire to proclaim his homosexuality was never clearer than in his publication of his correspondence with Henri de Montherlant, a fellow gay writer.
Published in 1983 after Montherlant's death, the letters dwell at length on their homosexual activities and yearnings for the pleasures of young men.
Indeed, in the second volume of his biography of Voltaire, published in 1992, he even asserted that Frederick the Great of Prussia had seduced the young Voltaire. The claim was ridiculed by French historians, but Mr. Peyrefitte had once again become the focus of polemics.
Genre: Fiction / MM / Romance
Les amitiés particulières (Special Friendships) - (1950, 1958 Hyams translation)
Les amitiés particulières (Special Friendships) is a 1943 novel by French writer Roger Peyrefitte, probably his best known work today, which won the coveted prix Renaudot. Largely autobiographical, it deals with an intimate relationship between two boys at a Roman Catholic boarding school and how it is destroyed by a priest's will to protect them from homosexuality. The book has been translated into English by Felix Giovanelli (1950) and Edward Hyams (1958) both under the title Special Friendships and the latter was reissued in the United States as Secret Friendships. As of 2011, they are out of print. In 1964 a film adaptation, Les amitiés particulières, was made, directed by Jean Delannoy.
The Exile of Capri (1959)
The Exile of Capri was first published in 1959, and it at once become a great and very influential classic of gay literature. It takes the form of a biography of Count Jacques d'Adelsward-Fersen, the most notorious libertine of pre-1914 Europe, under whose patronage Capri became a refuge for the sexually persecuted. A host of giant figures throng the pages of this witty, compassionate and brilliantly funny book.
Notre Amour (Our Love) - Roger Peyrefitte (first published 1967)
The book is about the (sexual)relationship between Roger Peyrefitte and a fourteen-year-old lyceum student. It is autobiographical; the boy in the book stands for Alain-Philippe Malagnac de Argens de Villele, whom the author fell in love with during the shooting of the movie 'Les amitiés particulières' in 1964. The relationship lasted to the death of Alain in the year 2000.
In 'Our love' we see a man-boy relationship, which is endangered by the illness of the boy, the secrecy that must be kept towards the outside world, the beautiful boys the boy meets during his holiday, a fountain-pen, a loan of one hundred and fifty thousand francs and finally, the boy's insecurity. But Love survives in the end!
Roy - Roger Peyrefitte (1979) (translated into English for the first time)
Roy Clear, a young Californian almost fourteen years old, discovers pleasure... That is the main theme of this new novel by Roger Peyrefitte, which brings out the astonishing contrast between the moral freedom of the young and the conformism, or hypocrisy, of those around them.
We are in 1977-78. Roy, a boy from the highest social class, lives in Beverly Hills, the wealthiest area of Los Angeles - which is to say of the United States; and he is a student at the elegant high school there, having come up from the very chic Buckley school...
It is with men, boys, and one girl that he discovers pleasure - and indeed all the pleasures that most deviate from the orthodox. Sex, drugs, money, violence and religiosity (the famous Californian cults) mingle in these pages, just as they are indissolubly mingled in American life. A world both troubled and troubling, at times rendered more appalling by the magnificent Southern Californian setting.
Owing to the exactitude of its reports of public events, the book serves also as a contemporary chronicle, the accuracy of which will come as no surprise to Roger Peyrefitte's readers. And finally, they will find that the scarcely credible daring of many scenes will, because of the ages of the principal characters and the intensity of their school life, form a kind of counterpoise to his earlier book Les Amitiés Particulières (Special Friendships).
Roy is an example of erotic literature. But in spite of that it remains the book of a moralist, since it ends with the triumph of a certain moral attitude... "Peyrefitte writes in the way that Ingres drew", said Jane Albert Hesse. Never has the nimble grace of his pen been as necessary, and as admirable.
Nevertheless, those susceptible to shock are advised not to follow him into this terrain where, in order to portray a young Californian of to-day, he wished to avail himself of all the resources of an uncompromising liberty.
Download Instructions Les amitiés particulières (Special Friendships):
(Closed Filehost) https://ul.to/wunbut3e
Mirror:
https://ulozto.net/file/kZxjLohiPiSt/sf-rp-zip
Download Instructions "The Exile of Capri"
(Closed Filehost) https://ul.to/tbxhnwrj
Mirror:
https://ulozto.net/file/kfgXpzfOEmh6/teoc-rp-zip
Download Instructions: "Notre Amour" (387 kb)
(Closed Filehost) https://ul.to/tcdypifj
Mirror:
https://ulozto.net/file/JbziKEQYLePo/na-rp-rar
Download instructions: "Roy" (3.2 Mb)
(Closed Filehost) https://ul.to/uzhegwiv
Mirror:
https://ulozto.net/file/E6SNzRAurt6E/r-rp-zip
Les Amitiés Particulières [aka "Special Friendships"] by Roger Peyrefitte [Flammarion Illustrated Edition] (1953)
http://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1295&t=2013292
Edit: 13 May 2021 Added new links for Special Friendships, Exile of Capri, and Roy.
Edit: 14 May 2021 Added new links for "Notre Amour"
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Added 3 more books by Roger Peyrefitte:
The Exile of Capri (1959)
Notre Amour (Our Love) - Roger Peyrefitte (first published 1967)
Roy - Roger Peyrefitte (1979) (translated into English for the first time)
The Exile of Capri (1959)
Notre Amour (Our Love) - Roger Peyrefitte (first published 1967)
Roy - Roger Peyrefitte (1979) (translated into English for the first time)
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Special Friendships (1958)
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I have now added new links for the previously expired ones, including "Roy" and "Notre Amour". My thanks for those who provided new links for the "Special Friendships" and "The Exile of Capri" while I was unable to do so.
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