experience in a different light i do because i was in a boarding school where a good number of the priests ended up in jail and so i think if you're a novelist but if you're anybody but just said novelist and you're looking at think i know when that happened and how it happened but at the time i missed. it i didn't realize what was going on right in front of me and i think for a novelist it's a tremendously interesting idea that all the time perhaps in all of our lives in our parish there's something going on that's maybe obvious except if they don't notice us. in a landmark referendum of 2015 a majority of irish citizens voted in favor of recognizing same sex marriage calling to be openly gay i played an important role in the campaign and is proud of ireland's development. you were brought up in a kind of dark time certainly saw homosexuality had no name in the country which

doesn't didn't recognize gay rights. it was it was being gay was seen as a form of perversion and suffering when did this when did to you realize you were gay and when did you decide to go public. probably realize that early on and it's that i think it was a very common thing in our lives or you would tell one or 2 people one or 2 people would guess and then no one else would know so you would compartmentalize everything so that you know he lived it felt easy it felt natural but when i went to live in spraying when i was 2975. barcelona was wild at that time. there were no gay bars which meant that the street certain streets were just filled up not with gay men wandering about and it might have seemed that there

was repression but it didn't feel like that in spain much more open people were much more ready to enjoy their lives and arlen there was always a guilt or. to be described as guilt very well he honors his characters in the struggles many of which are universal. even if for instance fled poverty and suffered emotional turmoil as did millions of immigrants. to be in thinks it's important to get the setting right eat the depicts the times in which is characters are living. i almost think if you know in a painting or portray the work done behind the brush work just to make it color behind often does

a great deal of work even though it seems like background i think if you're writing a novel set in time no matter what you do what's going on in that in the either background or deep background of the society has to make its way into the novel even if you try to keep it out it will come in somewhere other doesn't mean it to foreground this project to know if you know what year because it matters enormously . the characters in tobin's novels tend to be ordinary men and women teachers accountants merchants all from rural ireland. are the heroes and heroines of his novels also his readers yes yes how did this become a good it's become a good audience. you get a sense that a book a novel a new novel isn't it is some sort of intervention. i imagine a sort of imaginatively in the society that somehow or other book clubs or women

who for example haven't had a greater chances or education will take a book open to the out of the book and up meaning a lot to them that this book is there in a way i think the society is so filled with still i think with silences with things are just not mentioned much that it's it's if you don't talk often about things that really matter to you so that for example if there's if you lose somebody and after death people often just go quiet just just so a book that deals with that becomes a way of breaking a side. book to list tobin's most successful novel to dean's it was adapted to a screenplay too though he didn't write it he did however write the screenplay for return to montauk together with german director focus she learned. the screenplay of brooklyn was written by minnie kong the after that german to rectify question

and of asked you to to help them to be the cold writer for the screenplay of return to montauk. how did that happen and can you imagine today. of writing the screenplay for one of your own novels no i think it's if you've written a novel what you don't want to do then is go back and make changes in it that you would never have made when you were writing it and find with a producer or a new producer or a group of people telling you oh no we don't want her to go you know we want her to go to not go home or you know go to brooklyn much earlier so we had said and you're suddenly actually you know. destroying your own work so i didn't want to do that i liked what nick did but i didn't want to do it for the. came. i was ready i probably i had just written a novel so i was sort of free. and the idea of working with him and learning something and actually looking at the form of screenplay and thinking about actors

and we had a very good time both of us doing this a lot of the time we wrote together i mean literally together i mean we would be opposite one another to talk or no not listen to this he said no no no you're actually right this right this to try this and i was just kind of at that for hours and people were stranded. people were staying with me saying she was maddie's because there how you don't even listen to each other. so far we turn to montauk has been tobin's only foray into the world of he's currently working on a new novel got one of the 1st also if you've read when you were young once too much money and now he told me that he of writing a novel thought too much money can you tell me a little bit more about it when i was a teenager you were nobody in my world if you know you weren't watching grounds films and reading the magic mountain and you know that they were the sort of necessary things part of that world of being you know an art student or literature

student. in the early 19th seventies and he's been on my mind as a figure of great time to get. but nothing about him is fully clear from his sexuality to his relation of to his family to his political beliefs to his response to various public things that occurred to the great difference between his life in the 1st world war life of the 2nd world war his race there to his brother to his mother to his sons to his daughters as there's nothing stable in all that there's nothing everything has to be investigated and dramatize so it's a very interesting story a lot of it centers on the right here dr faustus. so the looking out show. you know that having a rich time really trying to invoke him not as a bargain for much but prior to what happened him fully as

a character you know. to be was hardly able to write for almost 2 years he was diagnosed with cancer in 28 and underwent chemotherapy prolonged stays in the hospital it left him exhausted. in an essay for the london review of books you've wrote about it dealing with the diagnosis and the treatment of cancer why did you feel the need to write about it look i promised i wouldn't write it you know i hate people writing about their illnesses and i just it's awful and i really thought i wouldn't do it and also no one asked me to do it there was no demand for this and then one day i just a sentence came into my head and the sentence was it all started with my balls it's like the sentence you know all a ball of war start and then once i wrote that i just for a month or so just what i had to it regularly other things that happened. that

i had you know but a 1000 words and i thought well you know i read it over again and i just laughed at it and thought i've actually almost got rid of some of the anguish around you know some of us all task. of all that you've writing both balls. of the experience was grotesque and i thought if i published this sort of free me in some way that would be really over and it didn't work so i said to the lot of us remember that no just say i'm not sure this is any use. and then they they said that publishers and then of course everybody you know because i hadn't told people i went back to teach without telling anybody and i was trying to behave like a normal i was really sick i have like a normal person i was doing all my work and i was coming to be mean but i mean i had no i presently. so the policy of the piece was sort of father you know i

also thought i was trying not to feel sorry for myself. even during his cancer treatment tobin continued to shuttle between ireland and the u.s. he continued teaching at new york's columbia university. i love columbia university i love having a big library i love the upper west side of new york where nothing ever happens people talk about the city the doesn't sleep everything close about 9930 up there i mean a really asleep at the place. it's you know it looks like a university village you know and i teach on monday and tuesday and graduate seminar on oscar wilde and to do an undergraduate 7 are on the to say that people talk about things changing and young people not being like they were on the internet that's all just rob it's all just rubbish that someone 18 year old reading a book can actually find that the book has missed that lit a fire in her or in him and i see that and i witness

a. book's continue to light a fire in to be and he brings that passion to his work as a writer and as a teacher. calling to be seen is a man who can forever lose himself in literature even if he never forgets his irish roots. 6 pts.

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