James joyce

Berenice Abbott. James Joyce. 1928. James Joyce. Gelatin silver print. 13 7/16 × 10 3/8" (34.2 × 26.4 cm). Stephen R. Currier Memorial Fund. 5.1971. © 2024 Estate of Berenice Abbott. Photography

‘James Joyce is a living argument in favour of my contention that it was a mistake to establish a separate university for the aborigines of this island — for the corner boys who spit into the Liffey.”

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Molly Bloom's closing soliloquy...and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes…

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James Joyce

by Jacques-Emile Blanche oil on canvas 1935 © National Portrait Gallery, London

Louis Menand writes on how the materials of James Joyce’s fiction are found objects, “the reality of experience,” as Stephen Dedalus puts it, in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.”

Something is missing in Ulysses—which could be called romanticism, or the ideal, or the metaphysical; and its absence is the deep reason why Joyce’s early readers were so alarmed, and why it can still disturb.