Thursday, 06 Mar
18:00
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Times
6:00pm
Running Time 1 hour 30 mins
Venue York Explore Library, Explore York Library
Join John Goodby, professor and Dylan scholar, for a discussion of the relationship between the life and the legend – just how true is the hard-drinking, womanizing image? In what ways does it distract from the writing – and what does a biographer do about that? Did Thomas really say ‘I’ve just drunk eighteen straight whiskies – I believe that’s the record’ before lapsing into the coma from which he never recovered? Would it be true to say that the image Thomas created, while a fiction, became a kind of Frankenstein monster which finally destroyed him?
This event is part of York Literature Festival and will take place at York Explore, Library Square, Museum St, York YO1 7DS.