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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0195031032
ISBN-13: 9780195031034
Aug 1982
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
906 pages
Revised; Subsequent
Language: English |
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Synopsis
This masterly biography has long been called definitive--a vast labor of insight and intelligence that is widely seen as a model of its kind. In Ellmann's hands, Joyce's life reads like a fascinating novel of a quirky, complex, and ultimately appealing man and writer.
| Size | | Length: | 906 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 2.0 in | | Weight: | 49.6 oz |
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"This immensely detailed, massive, completely detached and objective, yet loving biography, translates James Joyce's books back into his life. One closes it with the impression that everything that any friend of his or that he himself said or did, every detail of his family life, became verbalized and stored away in his mind as material he might put into his books...Mr. Ellmann is to be respected, for, although Joycean, his love of his subject never comes between Joyce and the reader. Indeed, he writes with a cool and masterful detachment, which allows the reader to approach Joyce with a completely open mind, something liking the warm humanity, sometimes detesting the cold arrogance of the man, always having the sense that he who was often a fool in his life was always wise in his work."
New York Times Book Review - Stephen Spender (10/25/1959)
"Ellmann's 'Joyce' bowled over most readers when it first appeared -- no one had seen such scholarly detail, such professionalism, such astute use of modern critical techniques....Instead of allowing each day to lapse back into the fold of vague memory, Joyce was perpetually reinforcing and reshaping his experience, making art out of life. Ellmann is able to trace this process in vivid, almost three-dimensional detail."
Parini
"We read Ellman not only to revisit Joyce's Dublin but to understand how Joyce, modernism's wonderworker, did it--how did he produce from the drab facts of the provincial, sodden, priest-ridden Irish capital such rare and comprehensive art...?"
New York Review of Books - John Updike (03/23/1999)
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