Title
"Daddy, you bastard, I’m through": On Literary Parricides
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Commentary on nine memoirs written by the children of famous literary figures who always put their writing first. Meyers characterizes the children’s responses, ranging from adoration to hatred, in their struggles to establish their own identities. Describes Gregory Hemingway’s 1976 memoir, Papa, as his attempt to reconcile his childhood memories of his heroic father with the drunken bore his father became in his later years. Notes that Gregory, while relieved by his father’s death, remained permanently damaged by his father’s actions.
Published in
American Imago
Volume
74
Issue
2
Date
Summer 2017
Pages
173-186
COinS
Citation
Meyers, Jeffrey. “‘Daddy, you bastard, I’m through’: On Literary Parricides.” American Imago 74, no. 2 (Summer 2017): 173-86.