![]() ![]() ' John Glassco: An Essay and Bibliography' is the first detailed treatment of a writer who - often styled as a fop, dilettante, and Edwardian eccentric - maintained an hermetic devotion to his own large talent. ![]() Sutherland has entered the labyrinth of Glassco's remarkable career and emerged with many new facts about one of the foremost figures in 20th-century Canadian literature. In his erotica, his unfaltering good taste yielded insights into the tangled psychosexual world of Aubrey Beardsley and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Through his many translations and anthologies, he helped English Canada understand Quebec better. In ' Memoirs from Montparnasse', Glassco linked the present with the glorious Paris years of Joyce, Hemingway, and the surrealists. He was John Glassco (1909-81), whom Fraser Sutherland calls 'a dignified and elusive man, something of a genius'. ![]() He won the Governor-General's Award for Poetry. He wrote the novels ' Fetish Girl' and ' The Temple of Pederasty'. He was Mayor of Foster in Quebec's Eastern Townships. "He was a gigolo in a Paris brothel and caused a scene at a Gertrude Stein party. 8vo, decorated grey cardcovers with white lettered black title block to front cover, black lettering to spine.įraser Sutherland (b. (Downsview, Ontario) : ECW Press, (1984). John Glassco : An Essay and Bibliography. ![]()
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