Word: joycean
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...deep should well-amused readers poke beneath the jaunty black humor and Joycean wordplay? This remains a perennial Burgess puzzle. He is a composer and music critic, a one-time lecturer in phonetics, a learned, lapsed Catholic, and-not the least-a superb writer. Unlike Graham Greene, he does not separate his "serious" novels from his "entertainments." Rather, he tries to make them all two-for-one propositions...
...THIRD POLICEMAN, by Flann O'Brien. A brilliant Joycean romp through the nether world, written by the late Irish novelist in 1940 and now published in the U.S. for the first time...
...THIRD POLICEMAN, by Flann O'Brien. A brilliant Joycean romp through the nether world, written by the late Irish novelist in 1940 and now published in the U.S. for the first time...
What keeps a man and his soap apart for so long? Bad but heavily significant puns. Long scatological accounts of constipation that add up to a plain case of logorrhea. Recurring signs and symbols planted like a Freudian scavenger hunt. Above all, the metaphysical pseudo-Joycean rhetoric of a sometime poet, sometime screenwriter from Hollywood ("The mind is a revolving snowflake out of the backblackward...
...Walrus is ambiguous enough to keep you wondering how serious the Beatles really are. Richard Poirier, the reigning Beatles explicateur, said last month in the Partisan Review that "the Beatles' most talented member, John Lennon, has written two books of Joycean verbal play that suggest why no one is ever in danger of reading too much into the lyrics of their songs." So don't sell the allusions short...