James Joyce: New And Revised Edition
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Richard Ellmann's James Joyce stands as the definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's most revolutionary literary minds — a monumental work that chronicles the turbulent life of an Irishman who reinvented the English language from the inside out. From the fog-laden streets of Dublin to the expatriate cafés of Trieste, Zurich, and Paris, Ellmann reconstructs Joyce's restless journey with extraordinary intimacy, illuminating the biographical sources behind Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake with meticulous scholarship and narrative brilliance. Winner of the National Book Award and widely regarded as the greatest literary biography written in the English language, this New and Revised Edition presents decades of additional research, uncovering fresh correspondence, corrected chronologies, and nuanced portraits of Joyce's complex relationships with Nora Barnacle, Ezra Pound, and Samuel Beckett. Ellmann writes with the authority of a scholar who spent a lifetime in Joyce's company, and the result is a biography that illuminates not just the man, but the very act of literary creation itself — leaving the reader with the unmistakable sense that genius and suffering are, perhaps, inseparable.
Author: Richard Ellmann
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Oxford University Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Richard Ellmann's James Joyce stands as the definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's most revolutionary literary minds — a monumental work that chronicles the turbulent life of an Irishman who reinvented the English language from the inside out. From the fog-laden streets of Dublin to the expatriate cafés of Trieste, Zurich, and Paris, Ellmann reconstructs Joyce's restless journey with extraordinary intimacy, illuminating the biographical sources behind Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake with meticulous scholarship and narrative brilliance. Winner of the National Book Award and widely regarded as the greatest literary biography written in the English language, this New and Revised Edition presents decades of additional research, uncovering fresh correspondence, corrected chronologies, and nuanced portraits of Joyce's complex relationships with Nora Barnacle, Ezra Pound, and Samuel Beckett. Ellmann writes with the authority of a scholar who spent a lifetime in Joyce's company, and the result is a biography that illuminates not just the man, but the very act of literary creation itself — leaving the reader with the unmistakable sense that genius and suffering are, perhaps, inseparable.