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Novel of an Invert in English. After sending an epistolary summary of his life to Émile Zola to be made into a character, a gay man discovers that Zola had instead given his 1889 confessions to a sexologist to publish in 1896. Emboldened, the anonymous man then writes a joyous, flippant update to describe his loves and affirm his right to love other men.
Editions
- Paris: Archives d’Anthropologie Criminelle (1894), Vol 9, page 212.
- University of Nebraska Press (2008) in Queer Lives: Men’s Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France as "Novel of an Invert." Translated by William A. Peniston and Nancy Erber. (ISBN: 978-0803260368)
- Paris : Les Nouvelles Éditions Jean-Michel Place (2017) as Confessions d’un homosexuel à Émile Zola. Première édition non censurée du « roman d’un inverti ». Edited by Michael D. Rosenfeld. Unexpurgated. (ISBN: 9782376280033)
- Columbia University Press (2022) as The Italian Invert: A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions to Émile Zola. Edited by Michael D. Rosenfeld and William A. Peniston, translated by Nancy Erber. Unexpurgated. (ISBN: 978-0231204897)
