In the canon
James Joyce
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1959
- Pages
- Pages 840
"We are still learning to be James Joyce's contemporaries, to understand our interpreter." Richard Ellmann opens there, then spends eight hundred pages earning it. His luck was arriving while the witnesses still lived: Stanislaus, the brother who bankrolled Trieste and was rarely thanked for it; Sylvia Beach; Samuel Beckett; the landladies and the pupils Joyce taught English to between borrowing money from them.
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
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