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Letters of James Joyce (3 Volume Set) Hardcover – January 1, 1966
- Print length1496 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherViking Press
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1966
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- ASIN : B001LOHOTE
- Publisher : Viking Press (January 1, 1966)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 1496 pages
- Item Weight : 7.96 pounds
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,378,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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![James Joyce](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71csqdmujaL._SY600_.jpg)
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century.
Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilised. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism and his published letters.
Joyce was born in 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin—about half a mile from his mother's birthplace in Terenure—into a middle-class family on the way down. A brilliant student, he excelled at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's alcoholism and unpredictable finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin.
In 1904, in his early twenties, Joyce emigrated permanently to continental Europe with his partner (and later wife) Nora Barnacle. They lived in Trieste, Paris and Zurich. Though most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce's fictional universe centres on Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of Ulysses, he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal."
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And that's the essence of Joyce the man. Except for devotion to his family and friends, he seems to have been a perfect nihilist--in fact, "nullity" is his word to describe reality, although he does qualify it as "beautiful nullity".
He loved the music of words and the music of opera, but apart from "aesthetic" interest, he was evidently unconcerned about ideas, politics, or any other serious connection with his fellow human beings. He was a verbally gifted homme moyen sensual.
That's reflected in these letters, which must be among the dullest ever collected from the biographical point of view. Proust, another aesthete (though he at least had a "philosophy" of sorts), is his only major modern rival for sheer boringness as a letter writer.
Read Ellman's bio if you want the best account of Joyce's life as a human being, in spite of its nullity, but you can safely skip these letters unless you want to know more about his aesthetic concerns.