In Search of Family in The Wildes by Louis Bayard
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My guest today is Louis Bayard, author of The Wildes listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction.
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Why write about Oscar Wilde through the lens of his family life?
Inspiration for the novel from the memoir of Vivian Wilde, the youngest of the two sons of Oscar and Constance.
Challenges of writing about one of the great wits in the English language.
Structure of The Wildes as a play in five acts in a high comedy register.
Constance Wilde as the protagonist of the novel, and how she was very progressive for her…
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