Found this whilst reading Nabokov's lecture notes on Proust;
Was wondering if anybody else noticed this? Don't have a copy of the book at hand at the moment, unfortunately.Incidentally, the first homosexuals in modern literature are described in Anna Karenin, namely in chapter 19, part two, where Vronski is breakfasting in the mess room of his regiment. Two officers are briefly but vividly described-and the description leaves no doubt about the relationship between the those two.