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Colm Tóibín: A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods, 21 January 1999
A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition
by Gregory Woods.
Yale, 448 pp., £24.95, February 1998,0 300 07201 5 Show More
by Gregory Woods.
Yale, 448 pp., £24.95, February 1998,
“... In his essay ‘The Argentine Writer and Tradition’, Borges wrote that the Argentine writer, and the South American writer, by virtue of being distant and close at the same time, had more ‘rights’ to Western culture than anyone in any Western nation. He went on to explore the extraordinary contribution of the Jewish artist to Western culture and of the Irish writer to English literature ... ”