Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

Resumen del libro

'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in UlyssesIn Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers. From Wilde's doctor father, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist, who was taken to court by an obsessed lover in a strange premonition of what would happen to his son; to Yeats' father, an impoverished artist and brilliant letter-writer who could never finish apainting; to John Stanislus Joyce, a singer, drinker and story-teller, a man unwilling to provide for his large family, whom his son James memorialised in his work.

Colm Toibin 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 they surface in their work.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Colm Tóibínx{0026}lt;/B (Enniscorthy, 1955) es uno de los mejores escritores irlandeses de nuestro tiempo, ganador del Forster Award en 1995 y de la Medalla Bodley en 2022. De su obra cabe destacar las novelas x{0026}lt;I The Master x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2018), ganadora del Premio IMPAC, el Premio al mejor libro extranjero de x{0026}lt;I Babelio, x{0026}lt;/I el Los Angeles Times Book Prize y finalista del Booker Prize; x{0026}lt;I El testamento de Maríax{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2014), finalista del Man Booker; x{0026}lt;I Brooklynx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2016), su obra de ficción más conocida, llevada al cine por John Crowley y ganadora del Premio Costa Book; x{0026}lt;I Nora Websterx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2016), ganadora del Premio Hawthornden, x{0026}lt;I La casa de los nombres x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2017) y x{0026}lt;I Madres e hijosx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2019), una selección de los relatos recogidos en x{0026}lt;I The Empty Familyx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Mothers and Sonsx{0026}lt;/I ,ganadora delEdge Hill Short Story Prize. Tóibín es también un excelente crítico literario, como demuestran las piezas reunidas en el volumen x{0026}lt;I Nuevas maneras de matar a tu madrex{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2013). Su última novela, x{0026}lt;I El magox{0026}lt;/I , ha sido ganadora del premio Rathbones Folio y ha sido escogida como uno de los mejores libros de año por x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I The Timesx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I NPRx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I The Washington Postx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I Vogue x{0026}lt;/I yx{0026}lt;I The Wall Street Journalx{0026}lt;/I . Su obra ha sido traducida a más de treinta idiomas.x{0026}lt;/P