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James Joyce

Richard Ellmann

Paperback | Pages: 887 pages

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Original Title:	James Joyce
ISBN:	0195033817 (ISBN13: 9780195033816)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	James Joyce
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Nonfiction (1960), James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (1982), Duff Cooper Prize (1982)

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Although several biographers have thrown themselves into the breach since this magisterial book first appeared in 1959, none have come close to matching the late Richard Ellmann's achievement. To be fair, Ellmann does have some distinct advantages. For starters, there's his deep mastery of the Irish milieu--demonstrated not only in this volume but in his books on Yeats and Wilde. He's also an admirable stylist himself--graceful, witty, and happily unintimidated by his brilliant subjects. But in addition, Ellmann seems to have an uncanny grasp on Joyce's personality: his reverence for the Irishman's literary accomplishment is always balanced by a kind of bemused affection for his faults. Whether Joyce is putting the finishing touches on Ulysses, falling down drunk in the streets of Trieste, or talking dirty to his future wife via the postal service, Ellmann's account always shows us a genius and a human being--a daunting enough task for a fiction writer, let alone the poor, fact-fettered biographer. Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more.

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Title	:	James Joyce
Author	:	Richard Ellmann
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 887 pages
Published	:	October 20th 1983 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published 1959)
Categories	:	Biography. Nonfiction. Cultural. Ireland. History

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This work should basically be considered essential reading for all lovers of Joyce. (of course, loving Joyce should also be considered essential) (so, really, this should simply be considered essential)A moving and powerful work of biography overflowing with detailed minutiae, abundant quotes (both from Joyce, about Joyce, and in correspondence to Joyce), and a warmth that brings Joyce and family to life as well as a work of studied scholarship as much of Joyces work was fed by his life and

Where does time go to? I read this years ago.This book was just recommended to me and searching through the shelves I came across this very dusty book in my biographies' section.If you want to know everything about Joyce then this is the ideal book for you but it is rather long at over 800 pages, 887 to be precise, including the index. I went through a "biography period" and I seemed to end up with tomes and not books.There are some fabulous photos of Joyce, and his family, and a splendid one of

This is a massive book, probably the best biography of James Joyce available.

The best literary biography ever written (maybe the best biography, period). Essential reading for anyone who care about modern literature and the nature of genius.

Of course Marcel Proust would have frown at my reading this. He would have been also irritated when I had read his Marcel Proust: A Life. He would have felt dismayed at the prospect of yet another reader who uses a biography as shaky clutches in the futile attempt to approach to a writer. He may have also felt troubled at anyone deluding oneself that one could approach his inner being as if he had not tried to do that himself. At least Joyce would have not minded being the center of attention.

This is THE biography of the great Joyce who brought us my favorite book of all time, Ulysses. It provides a fascinating account of Joyce's life and relationships as well of course as the sources and inspirations for his books including Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Finnegan's Wake. It is considered by most as one of the greatest biographies of an author written in the 20th C. I would tend to agree as it is highly readable and full of valuable insights.

Of course Marcel Proust would have frown at my reading this. He would have been also irritated when I had read his Marcel Proust: A Life. He would have felt dismayed at the prospect of yet another reader who uses a biography as shaky clutches in the futile attempt to approach to a writer. He may have also felt troubled at anyone deluding oneself that one could approach his inner being as if he had not tried to do that himself. At least Joyce would have not minded being the center of attention.