Talk:The Heart's Invisible Furies

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In the scene where Cyril discovers Julian dying of AIDS in a New York hospital, Boyne appears to attribute the title to Hannah Arendt.

Arendt used the heart's invisible furies to describe Auden's lined face, but within speech marks as she was quoting from Auden's poem, The Captial. (Remembering Wystan H.Auden, Who Died in the Night of the Twenty-eighth of September, 1973 - first appeared in New Yorker, September 1973).

It seems that many others writing about Boyne's book now attribute Auden's quote to Arendt. PB (talk) 14:24, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]