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...obscurities in Finnegan's Wake. But they also open up another realm for the scholars of hither and yon; they sketch out the tracery of ganglia and dendrons that made up Joyce's character, from the tip of his penis to the top of his cerebrating cells. In Richard Ellmann's collection of Joyce letters this sketch becomes fuller in direct proportion to the descent of the nervous charge from the brain to the genitals...
Selected anythings are usually not great as profiles of writers, probably because it's good to get a feel for the rough edges, the incomplete thoughts, and the out-and-out failures to appreciate what a writer does at his best. As for Joyce's "anythings," Ellmann chose the letters for this collection mostly on the basis of their general interest. And the interest never seems to sag just paging through these letters. Still, readers might rightfully doubt if they can do justice to what Ellmann calls "Joyce's principal assertions of his character and of his literary aims...
...Ellmann spent five years at Harvard as an instructor and assistant professor of English before leaving in 1951. He has taught English and Irish literature at Oxford for three years...
...Ellmann said in March he left Harvard in 1951 because he "had no clear assurance that I would be kept on, so I decided to try another college...
...detailed biography of Joyce won the 1960 National Book Award. Ellmann has also published criticisms of the works of Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats...