Query: French novels from 1920 or 1923 or LGBT novels from the 1920s
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Ladies Almanack
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Quicksand (Tanizaki novel)
Green Wheat
Clérambault (novel)
Le Diable au corps (novel)
Chéri (novel)
The Western Shore
The Counterfeiters (novel)
Mrs Dalloway
Pierre et Luce
La Brière
Passing (novel)
The Well of Loneliness
Les Mains d'Orlac
Evidence from documents: Ladies Almanack: written by Djuna Barnes in 1928. This ''roman à clef'' catalogues the amorous intrigues of Barnes' lesbian network centered in Natalie Clifford Barney's salon in Paris.
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel: '''''Le Bal du comte d'Orgel''''' ("Count d'Orgel's Ball") is a French novel by Raymond Radiguet (1903–1923). The second and last novel by the Parisian author, it was published posthumously in 1924.
Quicksand (Tanizaki novel): written in serial format between 1928 and 1930 for the magazine ''Kaizō''. The last of Tanizaki's major novels translated into English, it concerns a four-way bisexual love affair
Green Wheat: '''''Green Wheat''''' () is a 1923 novel by the French writer Colette.
Clérambault (novel): '''''Clérambault''''' (full title: Clérambault: The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War) is a 1920 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning French author Romain Rolland.
Le Diable au corps (novel): '''''Le Diable au corps''''' ('''''The Devil in the Flesh''''') is an early 1923 novel
Chéri (novel): '''''Chéri''''' is a novel by Colette published in France in 1920.
The Western Shore: novels from the 1920s: '''''The Western Shore''''' is a 1925 novel written by Clarkson Crane. It depicts life at the University of California, Berkeley in a series of 20 "episodes" featuring a variety of characters.
LGBT: The novel was not commercially successful and received mixed reviews. It is now mostly remembered for being an example of an early gay novel, for its inclusion of a gay professor as a major character as well as frank discussions of homosexuality among other characters.
The Counterfeiters (novel): ''''The Counterfeiters''''' () is a 1925 novel by French author , first published in .
Mrs Dalloway: '''''Mrs Dalloway''''' is a novel by Virginia Woolf, published on 14 May 1925, that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels.
Pierre et Luce: '''''Pierre et Luce''''' is a 1920 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning French author Romain Rolland.
La Brière: ''''La Brière''''' (translated as ''Passion and Peat'') is a 1923 novel by Alphonse de Chateaubriant that won the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for that year.
Passing (novel): novels from the 1920s: '''''Passing''''' is a novel by American author Nella Larsen, first published in 1929.
LGBT: The apparently sexless marriage between Brian and Irene (their separate bedrooms and identification as co-parents rather than sexual partners) allow Larsen to "flirt, if only by suggestion, with the idea of a lesbian relationship between Clare and Irene."
The Well of Loneliness: ''The Well'''s use of religious imagery outraged the book's opponents, but Hall's vision of inversion as a God-given state was an influential contribution to the language of LGBT rights.
Les Mains d'Orlac: '''''Les Mains d'Orlac''''' () is a French fantasy/horror novel written by Maurice Renard, first published in 1920. It is an early example of the body horror theme in fiction.