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Love In a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodóvar is a collection of essays by Irish writer Colm Tóibín published in 2002.
The first essay was a long review, published originally in the London Review of Books, on A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods.
"Writing these pieces", said Tóibín, "helped me to come to terms with things - with my own interest in secret, erotic energy (Roger Casement and Thomas Mann), my pure admiration for figures who, unlike myself, weren't afraid (Oscar Wilde, Bacon, Almodóvar), my abiding fascination with sadness (Elizabeth Bishop, James Baldwin) and, indeed, tragedy (Thom Gunn and Mark Doty)."[1] The book also contains an essay on Henry James, a figure to whom the author would later devote a novel, The Master.
Reception
editUpon release, Love in a Dark Time was generally well-received among British press. The Daily Telegraph reported on reviews from several publications with a rating scale for the novel out of "Love It", "Pretty Good", "Ok", and "Rubbish": Independent, Sunday Telegraph, and TLS reviews under "Love It" and Guardian and Times reviews under "Pretty Good" and Daily Telegraph and Observer reviews under "Ok".[2]
References
edit- ^ "Colm Tóibín". 19 March 2005. Archived from the original on 19 March 2005. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
- ^ "Books of the moment: What the papers say". The Daily Telegraph. 20 April 2002. p. 60. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
External links
edit- London Review of Books — first chapter of the book
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