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Article: An island lightly moored.(Books)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 15, 1998
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When James Joyce died in Paris in 1941 of complications from surgery, his reputation as the greatest novelist of the 20th century was already firmly established. Having lived most of his life away from his native Ireland, Joyce, it would seem, had successfully dodged the "nets" of nationality, language and religion that are bemoaned by Stephen Daedalus, the protagonist of his classic, "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
But if Joyce successfully managed to slip the bonds of a too-confining Ireland in pursuit of his artistic vision, the Ireland he left behind remained stubbornly preoccupied with matters of nationality, language and religion. In fact, ...