0
JAMES JOYCE

JAMES JOYCE

AUTHOR OF ULYSSES

EDNA O'BRIEN

12,50 €
IVA included
Low stock
Publisher:
W&N
Year of publication:
2020
ISBN:
978-1-4746-1445-0
Pages:
192
12,50 €
IVA included
Low stock
Add to favorites

One of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers turns her attention to one of the country's greatest novelists: James Joyce - in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the iconic classic ULYSSES.

'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so adept a novelist'
Sunday Telegraph

'A delight from start to finish . . . achieves the near impossibility of giving a thoroughly fresh view of Joyce'
Sunday Times

'Accessible and passionate, it is a book which should bring Joyce in all his glory and agony to a new and very wide audience'
Irish Independent

Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'. The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of Nora Barnacle, their hectic sexuality, children, wanderings, debt and profligacy, and Joyce's obsession with the city of Dublin, which he would re-render through his words. Nor does Edna O'Brien spare us the anger and isolation of Joyce's later years, when he felt that the world had turned its back on him, and she asks how could it be otherwise for a man who knew that conflict is the source of all creation.

Related Articles

  • THE SONGBIRD AND THE HEART OF STONE
    THE SONGBIRD AND THE HEART OF STONE
    CARISSA BROADBENT
    'The Hunger Games meets vampires in the third installment of the BookTok fave Crowns of Nyaxia series, a heart-wrenching, epic fantasy romance of love and treachery between mortals and gods . . . truly a vampire-lover's dream!' - Cosmopolitan In the descent to the underworld, a bride of the sun must choose between the light of her redemption . . . or a dark love that defies the...
    Available

    12,50 €

  • FOUR RUINED REALMS
    FOUR RUINED REALMS
    MAI CORLAND
    His sister's ring is in his sights, and he will do anything to get what he wants. Even manipulating the five blades to steal it... Bonded by deceit, the blades must rely on their skills to pull off King Joon's pursuit or risk his legendary wrath. A foreign rule of law stands between them and Quilimar, the Queen of Khitan. Now they have one month to steal the powerful Golden Rin...
    Low stock

    12,50 €

  • THE BRIGHT SWORD
    THE BRIGHT SWORD
    LEV GROSSMAN
    A book of the year for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Vulture, Esquire, Goodreads, Elle, NPR, Vox, New York Post, Lit Hub, Cosmo, People, Paste, Vanity Fair, Polygon, BookBub, BookRiot and more! 'This Year's Must-Read Novel . . . Grossman's lyrical prose has never been better' FORBES 'If you love King Arthur as much as I do, you'll love The Bright Sword . . . t...
    Low stock

    16,25 €

  • IZABELA THE VALIANT
    IZABELA THE VALIANT
    ADAM ZAMOYSKI
    A Spectator Best Book of the Year Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man's world. Her aristocratic position enmeshed her in high politics and close encounters with Frederick the Great, Benjamin Franklin,...
    Low stock

    13,75 €

  • NEVER
    NEVER
    JESSA HASTINGS
    THE FIRST IN A FANTASY ROMANCE SERIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF TIKTOK SENSATION MAGNOLIA PARKS "There is a boy of legend in the tales passed down in my family. He glides on the coat-tails of the sun, rides the wind, and freedom runs through his veins. His heart - so the legend goes - is wild. The boy lived in a faraway land tucked behind a star, where pirates were still true, merma...
    Low stock

    13,75 €

  • WHY WAR?
    WHY WAR?
    RICHARD OVERY
    A richly absorbing book... Overy is unquestionably one of our finest living historians - The Daily Telegraph Why has warfare always been part of the human story?From biology to belief, what explains the persistence of violent conflict?What light can this shed on humanity's past - and its future? There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to...
    Low stock

    13,75 €

Other books by the author

  • THE COUNTRY GIRLS TRILOGY
    THE COUNTRY GIRLS TRILOGY
    EDNA O'BRIEN
    Kate and Baba, two young Irish country girls who have spend their childhood together, leave the safety of their convent school in search of life and love in the city. Kate is dreamy and romantic and yearning for love, while Baba just wants to experience life as a single woman. Although they set out together, their lives take unexpected turns with each learning to find her own w...
    No stock. Please check price

    16,25 €

  • COUNTRY GIRL
    COUNTRY GIRL
    EDNA O'BRIEN
    Born in Ireland in 1930 and driven into exile after publication of her controversial first novel, "The Country Girls", O'Brien has created a body of work which bears comparison with the very best writers of the twentieth century. In "Country Girl" we come face to face with literary life of high drama and contemplation. And along the way there are encounters with Hollywood giant...
    No stock. Please check price

    16,25 €