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Article: EDNA O'BRIEN ON JAMES JOYCE.(Review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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James Joyce. Edna O'Brien. Weidenfeld & Nicholson. [pound]12.99. 182 pages. ISBN 0-297-84243-9.
In this brief biography a distinguished novelist romps through the hectic life of James Joyce (1882-1941). Any biography of him could be extended indefinitely because almost all in the life appears in the writings: his art and his life become synonymous, but did he have to experience everything to write about it? Surely not. Few modem writers have had such a powerful, all conquering memory, imagination and linguistic talent.
Edna O'Brien selects twenty-two allusive themes -- she could have chosen hundreds -- for her framework: she avoids the academic ...