

Hassett, James Maynard, and John McCourt. 'He was so eloquent and so persuasive that I took the book home with me and started reading it that night. 'He started talking about his love of Joyce and the musicality of the Sirens episode from Ulysses,' Hessler recalls. Along with the editor, contributors include Ronan Crowley, Maria DiBattista, Derick Dreher, Catherine Flynn, Anne Fogarty, Rick Gekoski, Joseph M. One day, the iconic rock star entered, seeking a copy of Joyce's Finnegans Wake to bring as a gift for his dinner hosts.

Rich and illuminating, this volume is essential for scholars, fans, and readers of the novel. It draws on Joyce’s notebooks and letters, as well as extant manuscripts and proofs, to provide new insights into Joyce’s life, the narrative and place of , the volume follows Joyce in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris from 1914 up through the novel’s publication-and the international scandal and fame that ensues. Commemorating the 1922 publication of this modernist masterwork, One Hundred Years of. Beginning with Tóibín’s expert interpretation of the Dublin context for Ulysses is widely regarded as the greatest novel of the twentieth century. Edited by world-renowned Irish novelist and literary critic Colm Tóibín, this book presents ten essays by preeminent Joyce scholars and by curators of his manuscripts and early editions, as well as an interview with Sean Kelly, the New York gallery owner who donated his extensive Joyce collection to The Morgan Library & Museum. Commemorating the 1922 publication of this modernist masterwork, One Hundred Years of James Joyces Ulysses tells the story of the writing, revising, printing.
