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LETTERS OF JAMES JOYCE, edited by Richard Ellmann. The letters show the terrors and jealousies that were transformed into irony and humor in Joyce's great novels...
LETTERS OF JAMES JOYCE, edited by Richard Ellmann. The letters show the terrors, suspicions and jealousies that were magically transformed into irony and humor in Joyce's great novels...
LETTERS OF JAMES JOYCE, edited by Richard Ellmann. The furies and compulsions that prefigured his work are set down in the literary electrocardiogram of a genius...
Lapsed Daughter. As valuable as the letters themselves is the brief, brilliant introduction by Richard Ellmann, who has already written the best biography of Joyce. Though Joyce regarded himself as an exiled genius in revolt against the bourgeois world, Ellmann notes that he "could not live outside the environment of family affection, badly as he acts within it." He fought hard for the advancement of his son, Giorgio, who aspired to be a singer (he became a middling successful bass) and devoted years to tending his daughter, Lucia, when she lapsed into schizophrenia...
Though he fled Ireland-that "sow that eats its own litter"-Joyce was never far from home in thought. His loving hatred for it burned fiercely till he died. He was, as Ellmann puts it neatly and memorably, "a Parnell...