Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodóvar by Colm Tóibín

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Published by Picador 2010

Colm Tóibín looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, artists whose homosexuality remained hidden or oblique for much of their lives.

Ranging from figures such as Oscar Wilde to Pedro Almodóvar, this book studies how a changing world changed lives in subtle and serious ways. Tóibín interweaves readings of various works with analysis of the personality behind each work to illuminating effect. Love in a Dark Time is an original, enlightening and crucially different approach to our literature and our times.