The Portable James Joyce
by James Joyce
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Author: James JoyceEditor: Harry Levin
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1976-11-18
ISBN: 0140150307
Number of pages: 768
Publisher: Penguin
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Book Review: Perfect, for a Joyce fan who owns Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Summary: 5 Stars
ANOTHER HOMERUN BY PENGUIN PORTABLE LIBRARY!!!!!
This is a very impressive sampling of one of the greatest manipulators of the English language, the member of the great trimverte of modern prose writers, who stands tall with Marcel Proust (1871-1922) and Thomas Mann(1875-1955).
I was very surprised that it not only contains his great collection of short stories which convey a great sense of Dublin, Dubliners (1914), but it has the complete novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Not only that, it has all the poetry the man ever wrote (or at least all that sees the light in our modern times). AND...if that is not enough for you, it also contains his 1918 play Exiles. It also contains a sampling of his more complicated great stream of consciousness novels from his mature period and they are the great masterpiece of stream of consciousness writing which established it as a modern art form, Ulysses (1922) and the incredible, controversial, mind boggling epic that is Finnegans Wake (1939).
To read the latter is hard and to understand it is just about impossible. Think of it as a final statement of Joyce's art, sort of forging a new language, going beyond the constricing limits of the English Language or, if you're like most of it's "victims," think of it as a prelonged and rediculous practical joke. Whatever you think about this guy, you can't help but remember the writings of James Joyce (1882-1941).
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