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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.
View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ukomPza-Oh0
- 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 time, and very much Oscar's equal.
- Lady Wilde (Oscar's mother), the fiery Irish revolutionary poet named Speranza.
- Oscar Wilde and his relationship to women, seeing them as equals.
- What can contemporary audiences learn from The Wildes, particularly the "fifth act" of the novel?
- Reading from The Wildes.
- One thing that Louis learned from writing this novel that he didn't realize before.
Read more about Louis Bayard on his website: https://www.louisbayard.com/
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