#john Knowles

[queeringclassiclit]

Gene & Phinneas

from A Separate Peace by John Knowles

submitted by @specialagentartemis who said:

My first high school lit experience of “oh… they’re Gay… or at least Phineas is”

[glitterygirl999]

John Knowles: I did not intentionally write homosexual subtext in A Separate Peace.

A Separate Peace:

Finny-Hey pal! Wanna smoke a fag in the butt room? 😏

Gene-Ugh you’re sooo annoying 🙄 Your eyes are like blue-green fire and I’m so enraptured by you as a human being that it’s soured to resentment btw.

Finny- Ah come on Gene! Learn to let loosen up a little! 😝 I would forgive you for any sin, even a knife in my back, because your mind is so familiar to me that it feels like an extension of my own haha.

Gene- Stopppppp I have to study for my trig test. 😡😡 I have never made an attempt to put word to my feelings for you because they run deeper than thought itself. Also that shirt makes u look gay ash🤦

Finny- Sure buddy. Say, do u wanna sneak away and ride our bikes to the beach, enjoy the shore for hours and fall asleep next to each other on the sand while I tell you how much you mean to me? Do you want to think about that moment for a decade after and wish you had said it back?

Gene- ok

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[extracurricularactivities2-0]

Boygenius is for all the girlie pops who spent hours, days, weeks, and years trying to convince their 10th grade English teacher that A Seperate Peace by John Knowles was gay as fuck.

[aretheyqueer]

Is he gay?

disclaimer: this is a hc, not speculating on what the writers intentions were.

reason: C'mon... have y'all read this book? Gene Forrester is the very pinnacle of repressed 1940s homosexuality. Also his bestie/rival/love-interest?/it's-complicated, Finny, isn't doing himself any favors either.

tag: @plumomi

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Wei Wuxian/Lan Wanji - Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation/ Mo Dao Zu Shi by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Robin of Berecrofts/Katelijne Sersanders - House of Niccolò by Dorothy Dunnett

Nina Zenik/Hanne Brum - King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

Gene Forrester/Phineas - A Separate Peace by John Knowles

[willothewispwisteriadawn]

I’m kind of surprised A Separate Peace by John Knowles doesn’t get recommended or even talked about more in the circles that enjoy The Secret History, Dead Poet Society, and The Goldfinch. I felt like these stories, particularly the first two, had such similar moments and vibes to A Separate Peace.

[girl-of-ink]

what is it about finny aseparatepeace that makes people so convinced that he's blond. he literally has a canon description but people are desperate to write him with blond hair and green eyes. people would rather write him as ginger than give him his actual brown hair and "blue-green eyes"

[ofmiceandpeace]

John Knowles books web!!!

For clarity: some of these apply to the respective protagonists on screen (like "not a big athlete" between Gene and Lou from The Paragon) but others refer to the books in general (like "War" and "leg injuries" (between Gene and Pete from Peace Breaks Out---Finny was the one to break his leg but Pete injured his as well).

If you have questions or need clarifications then ask! I'll probably be able to answer them

[litandlifequotes]

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

[al-sapore-di-sigarette]

"Tutto deve evolversi, per non morire."

Pace separata — John Knowles

[earlyamerica]

Books of Late: Used Bookstore Find. 4.24.24

Today, by sheer kismet, I stumbled upon a 1990 edition of A Separate Peace at a bookstore in town. Although the book didn’t particularly resonate with me during my first reading, finding this edition felt like uncovering a hidden treasure, a gentle reminder of unpredictable joys.

[karinyosa]

(10:17) There are some people who I think are partial to the notion, particularly kids, of having a twin… 

gore vidal on jimmie trimble, united states of amnesia / john knowles, a separate peace

id in alt.

some more quotes from this article that i initially wanted to add, but decided not to:

i believe they were sourced from palimpsest, vidal's first memoir, altho i can't verify bc there are no free pdfs of it online lol.

and one quote from asp, which i almost used in place of the "i didn't know you needed to study" quote, courtesy of @asp-quotes :

special shoutout to them for reminding me of most of these book excerpts and essentially causing me to make this post

[gene-forrester]

one thing about me is if i love something i’m going to collect as much of it that i possibly can. my favorite book of all time is A Separate Peace my John Knowles and i wanted to share my current collection of different covers/editions + related things.

[yuripira4e]

If I had a nickel for everytime classical literature created an intimate relationship between 2 boys at a boarding school (one who is popular and one who is introverted), who are struggling with their identity and the emotions they are feeling, but ultimately cannot express and then ending with the killing of (metaphorically or literally) the popular one, I would have 3 nickels, which is not a lot, but it is weird that it happened three times

[gayest-classiclit]

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