Biography of my father
Biography of my father
Biography of my father essay...
Two Different Ways of Understanding Fatherhood
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Recent entries into the literature of parenting offer disparate visions of dadhood as part of a man’s private, or public, life.
By Lily Meyer
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American literature is full of books about fathers. Philip Roth, John Updike, Richard Ford, Junot Díaz, David Gilbert, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Lethem, and many, many more have written, in fiction or memoir, about father-son relationships—for the most part, from the perspective of the son.
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In many of these works, the father figure becomes a representative of masculinity, or old values, or an adult world that bemuses the young son. It’s much less frequent to see a bemused young father on the page. It’s intriguing, then, to see two contemporary male authors, Charles Bock and Alejandro Zambra, write in great detail about their transformations into fathers, in