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Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
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A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century—an ingeniously plotted, behindthescenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce’s reputation.
Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce, published in 1959, was hailed by Anthony Burgess as “the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.” Frank Kermode thought the book would “fix Joyce’s image for a generation,” a prediction th...
The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century—an ingeniously plotted, behindthescenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce’s reputation.
Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce, published in 1959, was hailed by Anthony Burgess as “the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.” Frank Kermode thought the book would “fix Joyce’s image for a generation,” a prediction th...