Book · 1959 · Nonfiction

James Joyce

Name: James Joyce
Author: Richard Ellmann

Oxford University Press · 887 pages

★ 6.8 editorial score

The novelist Anthony Burgess called this the greatest literary biography of the century. Ellmann reconstructs Joyce day by day, the debts and the eye operations and the exact Dublin talk that became Ulysses.

Genre

Biography

Medium

Biography

Subject

Literature Writers Art

Setting

Dublin

Time

1959Depicts 20th century

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