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Reading Joyce (Paperback)
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Reading Joyce (Paperback)
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`Is there one who understands me?' So wrote James Joyce towards the
end of his final work, Finnegans Wake. The question continues to be
asked about the author who claimed that he had put so many enigmas
into Ulysses that it would `keep the professors busy for centuries'
arguing over what he meant. For Joyce this was a way of ensuring
his immortality, but it could also be claimed that the professors
have served to distance Joyce from his audience, turning his
writings into museum pieces, pored over and admired, but rarely
touched. In this remarkable book, steeped in the learning gained
from a lifetime's reading, David Pierce blends word, life and image
to bring the works of one of the great modern writers within the
reach of every reader. With a sharp eye for detail and an evident
delight in the cadences of Joyce's work, Pierce proves a perfect
companion, always careful and courteous, pausing to point out what
might otherwise be missed. Like the best of critics, his suggestive
readings constantly encourage the reader back to Joyce's own words.
Beginning with Dubliners and closing with Finnegans Wake, Reading
Joyce is full of insights that are original and illuminating, and
Pierce succeeds in presenting Joyce as an author both more
straightforward and infinitely more complex than we had perhaps
imagined. T. S. Eliot wrote of Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, that
it is `a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of
us can escape'. With David Pierce as a guide, the debt we owe to
Joyce becomes clearer, and the need to flee is greatly reduced.
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