El camino dividido

Published in 1949, this is a learning story that tells the life of a boy, Michael, confused with his sexuality and born in a small town, at a time when being different was not easy. Despite all the evidence, he will try to prove to himself that he is not different, but his efforts to deceive himself will end when he meets Paul, his best friend, a beautiful, presumably heterosexual specimen. His life journey will take him to New York, which will allow the author to describe the life of some New York gays in the 1940s, with certain details of that reality that will surprise the current reader. The novel was persecuted and banned in both the United States and Australia and possibly the reason for this was his positive view of homosexuality and homosexuals. However, it ended up being one of the great successes of American gay literature in the middle of the last century, selling tens of thousands of copies and being reissued periodically until the mid-1960s. It is, without a doubt, a work intended at the time for the gays of the time, in whose pages many of them would find reflection and vindication of their way of feeling.