Les Libertins d'Anvers

By Georges Eekhoud

Subjects: LGBTQ novels before Stonewall, Historical fiction

Description: Set in the 16th century, it follows the story of the roofer Éloi Pruystinck -called Loïet le Couvreur- prophet of an anarchic movement, which constitutes the center of the Antwerp Libertines, nicknamed Loïstes. This historical novel contains notions of homosexuality.