Re Joyce by Anthony Burgess
Arguing that "the appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke," Burgess provides a readable, accessible guide to the writings of James Joyce.
"Recognizing the coming and cosmic in Joyce, [Burgess] proceeds with his self-imposed task of unraveling meaning by scrutinizing the layers of a mind that was encyclopedic in dimension. . . He has defined the perimeter of Joyce's adventure in both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. . . . It took Burgess to place Joyce's satire in its proper orbit." -- Saturday Review
"Burgess has written a study of the most brilliant and humane of twentieth-century humanists." -- Philip Toynbee - The Observer
"Burgess has written a study of the most brilliant and humane of twentieth-century humanists." -- Philip Toynbee - The Observer
Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. He studied English at Manchester University and joined the army in 1940 where he spent six years in the Education Corps. After demobilization, he worked first as a college lecturer in Speech and Drama and then as a grammar-school master before becoming an education officer in the Colonial Service, stationed in Malay and Borneo. In 1959 Burgess was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and decided to become a full-time writer. Despite being given less than a year to live, Burgess went on to write at least a book a year - including A Clockwork Orange (1962), M/F (1971), Man of Nazareth (1979), Earthly Powers (1980) and The Kingdom of the Wicked (1985) - and hundreds of book reviews right up until his death. He was also a prolific composer and produced many full-scale works for orchestra and other media during his lifetime. Anthony Burgess died in 1993.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393004458 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393004457 |
| Titel | Re Joyce |
| Autor | Anthony Burgess |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | WW Norton & Co |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1968-04-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 276 |
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