“This idea of the older generation as strange, insistent shadows moving closer and closer to substance as time went on, the idea that I was writing, pushing myself to work, almost because they could not or did not, that I was inspired by their silence, has echoes in the work of other writers.”
At The Guardian, Colm Tóibín focuses on relationships between writers and their parents, starting with his own family and finding congruencies in the work of a number of prominent authors.
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