4 Books by Matthew Stadler (1990, 1993, 1994, 1997)
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Overview: Matthew Stadler has written four novels and received several awards and fellowships in recognition of his work. More recently, he has compiled four anthologies about literature, city life and public life. His essays have been published in magazines and museum catalogs around the world, and focus on architecture, urban planning and the problem of sprawl.
Between 1990 and 2000, Stadler published four novels that focus on children, sexuality, and art: Landscape: Memory (1990); The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee (1993); The Sex Offender (1994); and, Allan Stein (1997). These books were widely discussed and lauded as gay fiction, although Stadler, like other gay writers of his time, has commented that his books are not concerned with gay sexuality (though he himself feels a political obligation to identify as a gay man).
Genre: Fiction / MM
Allan Stein by Matthew Stadler (1997) 833 kb
Comic, erotic, and richly imagined, Allan Stein follows the journey of a compromised young teacher to Paris to uncover the sad history of Gertrude Stein’s troubled nephew Allan. Having been fired from his job because of a sex scandal involving a student, the teacher travels to Paris under an assumed name — that of his best friend, Herbert. In Paris, "Herbert" becomes enchanted by Stephane, a fifteen-year-old boy. As he unravels the gilded but sad childhood of Allan Stein, "Herbert" is haunted by memories of his own boyhood, particularly his odd, flamboyant mother. Moving from the late twentieth century back to the 1900s, effortlessly blending fact and fiction, Allan Stein is a charged exploration of eroticism, obsession, and identity.
Landscape: Memory by Matthew Stadler (1990) 2.4 Mb
Amid the rubble of San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake, Max Kosegarten, the narrator of this lyrical first novel, becomes the inseparable boyhood friend of Duncan Taqdir, son of a Persian sculptor and an English archaeologist. Set mainly in 1914-1916 and told in diary-like entries interspersed with 36 brooding illustrations by the author, the story follows the boys as they become lovers, ultimately separated by college and a tragic accident. Together they explore California’s woods, beaches and mountains, and search for evidence of the earthquake that brought them together. Their excavations as well as Max’s reading of Ruskin and Cicero, point to this sensitive novel’s motif: how memory accretes into character and shapes perception.
Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Men’s Debut Fiction (1990)
The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee by Matthew Stadler (1993) 29 Mb – contains 150+ images
Michael Upchurch called The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee "a work of great charm, playful paranoia, and exquisite obsession." It is now available from Grove Press in its definitive, revised edition with an introduction by Michael Cunningham. Adrift in a glittering city of high culture and constant crime, an earnest young historian named Nicholas Dee finds his life being taken over by a mysterious dwarf and the curiously gifted illiterate boy he is charged with teaching.
The Sex Offender (1994) – 493 kb
This extravagantly imagined tale chronicles the rehabilitation of a man – a lapsed teacher who is guilty of having had a love affair with a twelve-year-old boy. While the man’s crime was to mistake molestation for love, his cure will partake of the same confusion. In the name of love, the police and the doctors will molest him, inside and out. Subjected to a battery of strange therapies (many of them actual practices in health institutions across America), the man struggles to understand and embrace the lessons being offered to him by the Criminal and Health Ministry in charge of his new life. Under orders of the Doctor-General Nicholas, he is to find a new career away from the schools. He will become a writer: an occupation deemed therapeutic by the ministry’s professional staff.
As the city descends into winter, the man finds his life falling into a regular routine: psychoanalytic sessions with his doctor; aversive therapies in the laboratories of the technicians; long afternoons spent idling at the Cafe Eichelberger; and each evening, a secretive sojourn to an underground club, the Burlesque, to watch the forbidden entertainments of a towering drag queen banned from the city’s official stage.
The city is under siege, threatened by insurgent rebels encamped in the hills. The drag queen, suspected of ties to the rebels, has been forced underground. The sex offender’s life becomes increasingly duplicitous. By day, he is ensnared in the posturing and costumes of the city’s official culture and politics. By night, he revels in the theatrical excesses of the banned drag queen. He is pushed to the brink as the Doctor-General’s therapies become increasingly violent and bizarre. Torn between his allegiance to the Doctor-General and evidence that the drag queen is indeed linked to the rebels, the man finds himself straddling the breach between official politics and subversion.
The Sex Offender is at once a burlesque of the State and an unmasking of the foundations on which our notions of love and psychological health are based. In lavish prose reminiscent of the drag theater of Ethyl Eichelberger or Charles Ludlum, this chronicle weds compelling mystery with comedy, satire, and politics.
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doncarlos has reworked Landscape: Memory to, among other things, improve the quality of the author’s drawings, which are scattered throughout the book, and relate to aspects of the story. The reworked epub file is 7.8 Mb.
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Edited and fixed errors in Open Library PDF and epub versions to provide the complete text of the fine novels "Allan Stein" and "Landscape: Memory".
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Edit: Alternate download file (with enhanced images and other improvements) added 23 Nov 2014.
Edit: Added "The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee" 28 Feb 2015.
Edit: Added "The Sex Offender" 15 February 2018
