6/30/2023 0 Comments Father and Son by Edmund Gosse![]() But in the months after his death, he was all I could think about. I never expected to write about my Dad, a Yorkshire GP who died of cancer at 75 I’d spent decades trying to escape him. But when I came to write my own memoir, nearly 30 years ago, my perspective was that of a grieving son. ![]() Daughters offer a different perspective on dads, with Jackie Kay, AM Homes, Kathryn Harrison and Aminatta Forna among the pick. ![]() But grudging affection is common too – for a life well lived, or a man who deserved better, or a rogue whose faults are dissected and, sometimes, forgiven. And the Dad-Lit genre can’t help but have a strain of the Oedipus complex, as the old man is ousted and the boy takes his place. There I lay, on a pile of wood, about to be murdered by my Dad.įreudians offer a theory that’s the other way about, with the son killing the father. It’s meant to be an upbeat ending but as a child the story terrified me. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife …” God then calls off the infanticide a ram is sacrificed instead. ![]() T he first father-son story to leave a mark on me had Abraham, on God’s orders, preparing to kill his only son: “He bound Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. ![]()
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