Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
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From Colm TÃ³ibÃn, the formidable award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history, and literature told through the lives and work of three menâ€”William Wilde, John Butler Yeats, and John Stanislaus Joyceâ€”and the complicated, influential relationships they had with their complicated sons.

Colm TÃ³ibÃn begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to universityâ€”a wide-eyed boy from the countryâ€”and where three Irish literary giants also came of age. Oscar Wilde, writing about his relationship with his father, William Wilde, stated: â€œWhenever there is hatred between two people there is bond or brotherhood of some kindâ€¦you loathed each other not because you were so different but because you were so alike.â€ W.B. Yeats wrote of his father, John Butler Yeats, a painter: â€œIt is this infirmity of will which has prevented him from finishing his pictures. The qualities I think necessary to success in art or life seemed to him egotism.â€ John Stanislaus Joyce, Jamesâ€™s father, was perhaps the most quintessentially Irish, widely loved, garrulous, a singer, and drinker with a volatile temper, who drove his son from Ireland.

Elegant, profound, and riveting, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways these men surface in their work. Through these stories of fathers and sons, TÃ³ibÃn recounts the resistance to English cultural domination, the birth of modern Irish cultural identity, and the extraordinary contributions of these complex and masterful authors.
Country USA
Brand SCRIBNER
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrations, unspecified
ReleaseDate 2018-10-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476785172

Country	USA
Brand	SCRIBNER
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrations, unspecified
ReleaseDate	2018-10-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476785172

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

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