Place d'Armes Author:Scott Symons The Insomniac Library is proud to republish Scott Symons' daring and controversial first novel, Place d'Armes. First published in 1967, it is the story of a man who moves to Montreal to escape his family, begins writing a journal to be used later in writing a novel, and ends up writing the novel while still keeping the journal. — Symons ... more »was one of the first writers to openly thematize and describe male homosexuality in fiction, working when gay sex was still illegal.« less