Nor does Edna O'Brien spare us the anger and isolation of Joyce's later years, when he felt that the world had turned its back on him, and she asks how could it be otherwise for a man who knew that conflict is the source of all creation. The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of Nora Barnacle, their hectic sexuality, children, wanderings, debt and profligacy, and Joyce's obsession with the city of Dublin, which he would re-render through his words. By the end of the twentieth century, scholars had already devoted more space to the works of James Joyce than to any other author except Shakespeare. ![]() achieves the near impossibility of giving a thoroughly fresh view of Joyce' Sunday Times'Accessible and passionate, it is a book which should bring Joyce in all his glory and agony to a new and very wide audience' Irish Independent Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'. Ulysses is an Irish novel written by an Irish man for Irish people. 'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so adept a novelist' Sunday Telegraph'A delight from start to finish. She is author of James Joyce and the Matter of Paris (Cambridge 2019) and the editor of the forthcoming The New Joyce Studies (Cambridge 2022). One of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers turns her attention to one of the country's greatest novelists: James Joyce - in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the iconic classic ULYSSES. Catherine Flynn, University of California, Berkeley Catherine Flynn is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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