seymour's wake
Emily Moore (evmoore@hotmail.com)
Sat, 04 Apr 1998 16:27:44 -0800 (PST)
Unexpected Salinger parallel today, courtesy of Norton Anthology of
English Lit, 6th edition--apparently, James Joyce's wife, to whom he was
devoted wholeheartedly, was an "uneducated Galway girl with no interest
in literature" who charmed him with her "native vivacity and peasant
wit." Seymour, the Artist as a Young Man? Interesting for me because
Portrait is one of my all-time favorites. btw, can anyone advise as to
if the looming and difficult reputations of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
are justified? Or do they reach, as Norton suggests, a "point of
diminishing returns" in that "the effort of both the author and reader
is disproportionate?" (Personally found that assertion a little cocky
and out of line...)
-emily
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