Episode 41: Matthew Sturgis on Oscar Wilde and Social Mores
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A Novel About a Young Man
Author says he felt the walls of respectability were closing in on him. He'd always seen himself as an unconventional figure, and his embrace of homosexuality was part of that escape. His life really unleashed an enormous amount of both emotional and creative energy. And there is throughout almost a conscious sense of a embracing creative destruction.
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