Colm Toibin; Dullness as a virtue
Arts & Ideas
00:00
What Fiction Can Do to Explore Our Complex Feelings About Home
Fiction can explore our complex feelings about home and those ambiguities. The book, brooklyn was written during a time when a lot of people were coming into ireland for the first time in history as immigrants or asylum seekers. And an what you could do with a novel that you could not do with a panel discussion or a debase or an article will show what it's like to move from one country to another.
Transcript
Play full episode
