Christopher Frayling [Saturday Guardian 05.05.12 Review], in discussing Bram Stoker, claims that 'it has .... become fashionable to reclaim Stoker as an Irish author - just as Francis Bacon has been reclaimed as an Irish painter and Wilde as an Irish playwright'.
It is news to me that one's birthplace is a question of 'fashion'! Or does Frayling resent the literary success of the Irish? Maybe he also considers Joyce and Beckett French?
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