Testing paternity: Colm Tóibín on the fathers that shaped Wilde, Joyce and Yeats

By News States Man on 10/24/2018

\”… “All women become like their mothers,” says Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest. “That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.” Left hanging there, of course, is the implication that the son’s tragedy is that he becomes like his father instead. …\”

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