James Joyce A Penguin Life

"The aspects of Joyce's work upon which O'Brien writes splendidly are the linguistic and the erotic, the domestic and the familial....But there is another, and perhaps the ultimate, aspect of his work which she scants and, perhaps, disrespects. Joyce was an intellectual, perhaps the most finely honed of all the creative writers of his time....It is an aspect of his work that we ignore at our peril. And that is precisely what O'Brien has done....Joyce would have been dismayed by this, as am I..., but I much admire this book: It is swift, moving, and brimming with the author's enthusiasms and her well-earned affection for a difficult colleague. If you are about to set out upon Joyce's deep seductive seas, you will need only ULYSSES, O'Brien's study and Richard Ellmann's splendid biography."O'Brien, Edna is the author of 'James Joyce A Penguin Life' with ISBN 9780670882304 and ISBN 0670882305.