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Re Joyce
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Paperback, 276 pages
Published
June 17th 2000
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published 1965)
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I will read and have read any biography I can find on James Joyce. He fascinates me, so when my library got a new (old) biography in, I was really excited. Once I got it, I realized the author wrote "A Clockwork Orange," one of my favorite books. It isn't as much a biography as just a fellow writer and fan talking about why James Joyce is such a fascinating and enigmatic figure. It didn't give as much insight into Joyce's life as I would have liked, but it was written so well.
I tried to get into this book. Went over 100 pages. This is just way too analytical for my tastes. I want to enjoy books, and though Burgess clearly lvoes Joyce and he writes well, this is way worse than any high school English class analyzing a book. For those who like that level of intense scrutiny they will likely love this book. But not me.
Burgess has such fun and got so deeply into Joyce's language and process that it has made me re-evaluate ideas about Joyce that I had harbored since college...a long, long time to go without rethinking those decisions! So, it is a good thing. It was an intense, but interesting read.
Brilliant study of Joyce by another master of language(the mind behind A Clockwork Orange).
I completed this and still haven;t completed bloody Ulyssess
Interesting walk through of all of Joyce's works by the man famous for writing a Clockwork Orange. Something like really brainy Cliff Notes that span an entire career. Not sure what kind of reader would best be served by this book, but for me, a guy who is always considering revisiting Ulysses and Finnigans Wake, it helped stimulate the Joyce part of my brain and give me a little more ammo for when I do get around to reading those books again.
One of the best literary criticisms I've read!
An excellent, easy to understand analysis of all of James Joyce's works. I'm using it now to help me understand Finnegan's Wake, which I plan to re-read soon, and Ulysses. I'm really enjoying this book.
it's not hard to imagine how much fun it is to study joyce's language, burgess just happens to do it better than anyone else.
For a while it actually makes you want to read any of the crap that James Joyce published. The feeling thankfully passes.
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Anthony Burgess was a British novelist, critic and composer. He was also a librettist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator, linguist and educationalist. Born in Manchester, he lived for long periods in Southeast Asia, the USA and Mediterranean Europe as well as in England. His fiction includes the Malayan trilogy (The Long Day Wanes) on the dying days o...more
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