In the second part of 'Homosexuality and Literature', Fichte continues to question the ethical responsibility in poetic writing and the connection between erotic and literary development. Can the 'Iliad' not also be read as the first great love novel of world literature, as a love story between Patroclus and Achilles? Did Luther, in his monumental Bible translation, not also lay the foundation for racial pogroms with the hypocritical language of supposed neighborly love? Can we not also recognize in Platen the first poet who articulated the normal feelings of a homosexual? And does Genet's work not also reflect admiration for Hitler and an apology for the concentration camps? Fichte's analytical precision is even heightened in these late essays (1982 to 1985), while the polemical sharpness of his judgments remains the same. This volume also includes the important encounter with.