A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics
meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside
writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement
within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary
essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Toibin delineates the bleakness
and strangeness of life and also its richness and its complexity.
As he reveals the shades of light and dark in a Venice without
tourists and the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with
disappearances, we find ourselves considering law and religion in
Ireland as well as the intricacies of Marilynne Robinson's fiction.
The imprint of the written word on the private self, as Toibin
himself remarks, is extraordinarily powerful. In this collection,
that power is gloriously alive, illuminating history and
literature, politics and power, family and the self.
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