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Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature

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Colm Tóibín, May His Tribe Increase!
LOVE THAT ILLUMINATES
An intriguing collection of essays
Recalling Favorite Authors of His Youth!
I'm Left Somewhat in the Dark

Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature
Colm Toibin
Manufacturer: Scribner
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0743244672

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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.

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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Colm Tóibín, May His Tribe Increase!.......2005-06-22

Once captured by the liquid, informed prose of Colm Tóibín it is difficult to ignore anything this brilliant writer has written. Still under the spell of 'The Master' and having just sadly finished 'The Story of the Night' (that novel could have been extended another 300 pages!), it seemed only appropriate to read an investigative work, just to see how this man's mind absorbs and dissects the world of reality instead the one of fiction.

Happily LOVE IN A DARK TIME is as fascinating a read as his novels. Tóibín searches the lives of many writers and artists asking how did/does their sexuality inform what they create. After a few historic references regarding the gay aspects of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Melville, Joyce, Lorca, Yeats, Kafka, Proust, Gide et at, he analyses biographies (example: Lionel Trilling's bio of EM Forster) that appear unaware of the subject's sexual proclivities! That thrusts us into the exploration of history before the term 'homosexual' was created, regards the aspects of 'the gay being', and proceeds to introduce postulates as to how the works created by nine particular people were deeply influenced by their sexuality, occult or accepted.

What then follows is a richly detailed and elegant series of essays on Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Roger Casement (of The Black Diaries), Thomas Mann, Francis Bacon (the painter), Elizabeth Bishop, James Baldwin, Thom Gunn, Pedro Almodovar, and Mark Doty. In each essay Tóibín takes a new stance of investigation, finding incidents or traits in the lives of those discussed that allow 'stories' to develop naturally.

For those who have read 'The Master' (Tóibín's own "biography" of Henry James) this series of highly researched essays will come as no surprise. Tóibín's mind is rich with a plethora of books read and a penetrating mind that examines art from a vantage peculiar to a man that has arrived at the top of the heap in the field of literature. For enjoyable and informative reading, LOVE IN DARK TIME is a pearl. And reading Tóibín's older works only serves to whet the appetite for his next opus. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, June 05

LOVE THAT ILLUMINATES.......2004-12-18

Colm Toibin's "Love in a Dark Time" is a superior group of essays by one gay writer about other gay writers. What distinguishes this 2001 collection is how effectively Toibin sells the work of each figure essayed. I was never interested in James Baldwin before, but after reading Toibin's take, I ran out and enjoyed two Baldwin books. In the piece on Thomas Mann, we see how many of his male infatuations Mann turned into art--which infatuations into which stories--a subject being studied in detail only now by his biographers. And in the profile of Pedro Almodovar, we meet the Spanish torch singer Chavela Vargas, whom Almodovar rescued from obscurity because her confessional art mirrored so closely the values of his own cinema of women. A wonderful collection of essays that illuminate, indeed sell, each subject.

An intriguing collection of essays.......2003-08-23

In this series of essays, Colm Tóibín explores the lives of nine artists whose homosexuality greatly influenced their art, and whose art greatly influenced their lives. He writes about Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann, Thom Gunn, Pedro Almodóvar, James Baldwin, Roger Casement, Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Doty, and Francis Bacon (with a final essay about Catholic Ireland and how it is changing, with references to Micheál Mac Liammóir and Cathal Ó Searchaigh). Tóibín writes about not only their lives and art, but also the challenge and limitation of being labeled a "gay artist". These essays are fascinating and illuminating, and are a welcome addition to literary criticism, especially since it's a fellow writer bringing an interesting view to the canon.

Recalling Favorite Authors of His Youth!.......2003-04-21

This retrospective from this award-winning Irish gay novelist is a very informative, enlightening, and opinionated reading for anyone, but especially gay readers, interested in gay literature. The author's aim was to write a book about a group of authors and their books that he read in his youth, that deeply influenced him, and that he discovered only years later were by gay authors. These authors became companions that had the same interests as he did. Toibin examines the lives of such authors as; Thomas Mann, James Baldwin, Roger Casement, and poets Mark Doty, and Thom Gunn. These authors are some of the most influential gay writers of our time, but some had to keep their sexuality hidden by choice or necessity. I enjoyed all of Toibin's examinations of these fine authors but after reading Toibin's chapter about Roger Casement's "Black Diaries", which were supposedly vivid records of his sexual partners, I'm still left wondering whether or not they really existed.

This book shows how deeply serious this author is about his love of books. You will walk away with an entirely new view of the life and work of these authors who have clearly influenced Toibin's life. It is a book that makes you think of your own favorite authors and how they have affected your life. This is a wonderful book, like no other I have read. Highly Recommended!

Joe Hanssen

I'm Left Somewhat in the Dark.......2002-11-14

This is my first nonfiction read by Toibin. I've read three of his novels and think he gets better with each one. THE BLACKWATER LIGHTSHIP was an altogether fine book and deserved the Booker Prize I think. So I couldn't wait to start this one. I confess that I'm not sure what is going on here. In the introduction Mr. Toibin presents some of his favorite artists. He says that he writes about "gay figures for whom, in the main, being gay seemed to come second in their public lives" writers who write in code, whose works are not published during their lifetime, who use vague pronouns in their poetry. (Certainly I wouldn't have wanted to miss a novel like "DEATH IN VENICE," for instance.) Toibin goes on further to say that writing this book helped him come to terms with his "own interest in secret, erotic energy," his interest in both Catholicism and Irish Protestants, his admiration for "figures who lived in a dark time and were not afraid," and his fascination with sadness and tragedy. Herein lives Mr. Toibin's problem. He takes on too much in too little space. Additionally his treatment of these artists he admires is wildly uneven, both in depth and space. For example, the chapter on Oscar Wilde covers almost 50 pages; the chapter on Mark Doty-- one of my favorite writers-- covers only 7. And for the life of me I'm not sure what Mr. Toibin is trying to say in the concluding chapter entitled "Good-bye to Catholic Ireland," a chapter I read twice. Like many Catholics who attempt to say what is wrong with their church, Mr. Toibin is too "tentative," a word he uses elsewhere in this book, in his taking on the church. Certainly he is not alone in his dilemma, however. It's easy for me to make that criticism, never having walked in a Catholic altar boy's shoes either. In Toibin's chapter on Elizabeth Bishop, we are told that "like all orphans, Bishop was clever at making friends and inventing a family for herself." I suspect that that statement is true for many people but for "all orphans"? I'm not sure that that is a true statement.

There is a lot to like about this book, however. Mr. Toibin is never dull and is best when doing a narrative, something we would expect from a fine novelist. For example, when he describes a party that both he and Almodovar attended in Madrid, I wanted to be there. When I finished this book, I wanted to reread James Baldwin and read for the first time both Elizabeth Bishop and Thom Gunn. Toibin is also good at giving us delicious trivia about people. For example, we learn that Francis Bacon slept with a dog the night before being examined for military service in order to exacerbate his asthma and flunk his physical.

I'm certainly glad I read this book and would read anything by this writer. I just don't think this book is as good as Mr. Toibin's fiction.

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Joe, Jeney
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1847539351

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Future Gods, Dark Matter and Galactic Love...Humanity will become God in the infinite, infinite future. Chris Mathews puts his life on hold in the Eighth millennia and joins Professor Andrew Reichstein and Hailey Missentra on a ride to a slipstream at the edge of a black hole where time stands still. They hope to exit the stream a few seconds into the future and prove to the world that time 'emergence' is theoretically possible. However, they emerge into a time beyond their reckoning and, upon returning home, find their world changed forever. Chris, in particular, must decide whether to travel even farther into the future, into an infinite future, where man becomes God, and seek the missing information that will bring his loved one back to life. But not all is at it seems and he starts questioning if the futuristic world's enigmatic Priest stands to benefit more than he will from his efforts. He must also ask what this means to his friends and their survival.

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

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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
Colm Toibin
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Tóibín examines the lives and works of some of the greatest and most influential writers of the past two centuries, whose homosexuality remained hidden. This is an intimate encounter with Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann, Elizabeth Bishop, and Pedro Almodóvar among others. Through their work, Tóibín is able to come to terms with his own inner desires and secret erotic energy.

Description in Spanish: En este apasionante libro, Colm Tóibín escribe sobre la vida y obra de algunos de los escritores y artistas más influyentes de los siglos XIX y XX. A la luz de los tiempos que les tocaron vivir, Tóibín analiza cómo cada uno de ellos afrontó su homosexualidad, y cómo ésta ha influido en su producción artística. La lucha por una sensibilidad gay, que empezó siendo estrictamente privada, poco a poco se fue filtrando de forma reveladora en las obras de estos creadores homosexuales.

El amor en tiempos oscuros constituye un encuentro íntimo con Oscar Wilde, Thomas Mann, Elizabeth Bishop y Pedro Almodóvar, entre otros. A través de la obra de todos ellos, Tóibín nos transmite su propio interés por la energía erótica secreta, su admiración por los personajes valientes, y su permanente fascinación por la tristeza y la tragedia. Tóibín retrata tanto a los escritores que se vieron forzados a disfrazar su experiencia verdadera sobre el papel, como a los lectores que encuentran consuelo e identidad sexual leyéndoles entre líneas. Pero también es una historia de los avances que se han logrado desde la época intolerante de Oscar Wilde, hasta los tiempos menos oscuros de Pedro Almodóvar.

Colm Tóibín conoce el lenguaje del marginado, del guardián de secretos, de los hombres y de las mujeres gays. Conoce el lenguaje encubierto y manifiesto de la homosexualidad en la literatura y, en este libro, describe el consuelo de encontrar compañeros a través de la lectura.

DARK FANTASY - Volume 1, number 1 - Summer 1973: One Million Einsteins; Payment; The Island; White Room; Beyond the Gates of Amber; The Immortal; Tomorrow Is Such a Long Time; Sundown; How Much Do You Love Me John Barthalamew; Frenzy

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DARK FANTASY - Volume 1, number 1 - Summer 1973: One Million Einsteins; Payment; The Island; White Room; Beyond the Gates of Amber; The Immortal; Tomorrow Is Such a Long Time; Sundown; How Much Do You Love Me John Barthalamew; Frenzy
Howard E. (editor) (Gale A. Jack; A. A. Crawford; Augustine Funnell; Uriah) Day
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ASIN: B000GW4918

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MY GOD!!!
At first...
No time to die!
Exciting book!!
Super!

No Time to Die (Dark Secrets)
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Message from a dead girl...

It's too late to call back. Jenny will never speak to Liza again. But it seems that even from beyond the grave, Liza is begging her sister for help....

They say it's a serial killer. Is it? Jenny can't afford to trust anyone. Now she's here, in Wisteria, anonymously registered at the Chase College theater camp where her sister died. The daughter of a famous theatrical family, Jenny distrusts actors, loathes acting. Yet here in the college's darkened theatre, Liza seems to be speaking to her. Suddenly Jenny is mouthing Liza's last lines, sharing Liza's last days, a drama starring Brian, the stage manager, who seems to follow her everywhere...dangerously attractive Mike...Paul, who was obsessed with Liza...motherly, suffocating assistant director Maggie...and Walker, the director, bristling with hostility and resentment against Liza and Jenny's famous father. Does he suspect Jenny's true identity?

How can anyone know the visions that may be driving Jenny straight into the killer's arms?

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MY GOD!!!.......2006-12-17

ELIZABETH CHANDLER IS AMAZING!!!! BUY THESE BOOK WORSHIP THESE BOOKS THEY ARE A GIFT FROM GOD!!!!!!!!!!

At first..........2005-08-26

I thought this would be a BORING book. I had to find a book for my L.A. project and chose this randomly. I just finished reading it-and to my surprise-it was so exciting! It was very suspenseful, deep, and kept me on the edge of my chair! I couldn't help but turn the page continuously and read for hours. I am unusually like this unless I am reading a REALLY good book. And that's what this is--a REALLY good book and more!

No time to die!.......2005-07-25

This story is filled with unbelievable twist. It will keep you at the edge of your sit, and the ending was amazing. You won't believe what happens and you really will not guess who the killer is! I give this story five stars, a great job by Elizabeth Chandler.

Exciting book!!.......2005-06-14

Jenny's sister, Liza, was murdered while she was at drama camp and Jenny went there to find out if it really was a serial killer who did it. While she's there, Jenny keeps having these visions that are like memories of what Liza saw near to the time when she was murdered. Jenny is finding more and more clues and has many suspects. She doesnt think it was a serial killer, she thinks it was someone that knew Liza, and she needs to find out because they might try to kill her next. Jenny keeps touching things that give her chills and suggest that they had to do with the murder, like a hammer that she had a vision of being the murder weapon, and sometimes she has visions when she stands in a place that Liza was. Jenny doesnt tell the people there that she is Liza's sister and subtly asks around to find out more. Will she find out who the murderer is before they get her too? Read it to find out!!

Super!.......2004-10-31

This is a phenominal book, full of friendship and betrayal. It has captivating characters, even those who have "passed on" are intriguing and lead to a smooth flowing novel. Every detail helps pull the plot together in a superb ending.

DARK FANTASY - Number 1 - Summer 1973: One Million Einsteins; Payment; The Island; White Room; Beyond the Gates of Amber; The Immortal; Tomorrow Is Such a Long Time; Sundown; How Much Do You Love Me John Barthalamew; Frenzy

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DARK FANTASY - Number 1 - Summer 1973: One Million Einsteins; Payment; The Island; White Room; Beyond the Gates of Amber; The Immortal; Tomorrow Is Such a Long Time; Sundown; How Much Do You Love Me John Barthalamew; Frenzy
Howard E. (editor) (Gale A. Jack; A. A. Crawford; Augustine Funnell; Uriah) Day
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