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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