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Colm Tóibín knows the languages of the outsider, the secret keeper, the gay man or woman. He knows the covert and overt language of homosexuality in literature. In Love in a Dark Time, he also describes the solace of finding like-minded companions through reading.
Colm Tóibín examines the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential writers of the past two centuries, figures whose homosexuality remained hidden or oblique for much of their lives, either by choice or necessity. The larger world couldn't know about their sexuality, but in their private lives, and in the spirit of their work, the laws of desire defined their expression.
This is an intimate encounter with Mann, Baldwin, Bishop, and with the contemporary poets Thom Gunn and Mark Doty. Through their work, Tóibín is able to come to terms with his own inner desires—his interest in secret erotic energy, his admiration for courageous figures, and his abiding fascination with sadness and tragedy. Tóibín looks both at writers forced to disguise their true experience on the page and at readers who find solace and sexual identity by reading between the lines.
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Gays' writings, History and criticism, Homosexuality in literature, Modern Literature, Homosexuality and art, Homosexuality and literature, Gays, Biography, Écrits d'homosexuels, Histoire et critique, Homosexualité et littérature, Homosexualité et art, Gays' writings, history and criticism, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 19th century, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th century, LGBTQ art & artists, LGBTQ literary criticism, LGBTQ biography and memoir, collection:randy_shilts_award=finalist, 17.93 themes and motives in literature, Schriftsteller, Homosexualität, Literatura de expressão inglesa, Homosexualité dans la littérature, Littérature, Homosexuels, BiographiesTimes
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El amor en tiempos oscuros y otras historias sobre vidas y literatura gay / Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature
September 2004, Tauras
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9587041372 9789587041378
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Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature
May 25, 2004, Scribner
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0743244672 9780743244671
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Love in a dark time: gay lives from Wilde to Almodóvar
2002, Picador
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0330491377 9780330491372
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Love in a dark time: and other explorations of gay lives and literature
2002, Scribner
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Love in a dark time: and other explorations of gay lives and literature
2001, M&S
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077108580X 9780771085802
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"Originally published in 2001 in Australia by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited"--T.p. verso.
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