Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader
Anthony Burgess
(Author)
Description
"My book does not pretend to scholarship, only to a desire to help the average reader who sees all his works available in paperback and is scared more of their content then their price. The appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke; the profundities are usually expressed in good round Dublin terms; Joyce's heroes are humble men. If there was ever a writer for the people, Joyce was that writer. But there is a need for the kind of pilot-commentary I attempt to provide. After nearly fifty years of reading Joyce it seems only right that I should pass on what I have learned of his methods to those who come fresh to his riches."Anthony Burgess's own foreword to his work on Joyce establishes the purpose and the tone of his study. Vigorous, humorous and perceptive, his commentary is an excellent introduction and a valuable companion to the reading of Joyce.
Product Details
Price
$19.95
$18.55
Publisher
Galileo Publishers
Publish Date
September 15, 2019
Pages
256
Dimensions
5.1 X 7.6 X 1.0 inches | 0.65 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781903385890
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About the Author
Anthony Burgess (d. 1993) was a novelist, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. He is best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange (1962). Throughout his career wrote thirty-three novels, twenty-five works of non-fiction, two volumes of autobiography, three symphonies, more than 250 other musical works, and thousands of essays, articles and reviews.
Burgess was a lifelong scholar of Joyce and his book, Here Comes Everybody (1964), the first of his critical books about Joyce, was called by the Observer, "the best study of Joyce that I have ever read."
Burgess was a lifelong scholar of Joyce and his book, Here Comes Everybody (1964), the first of his critical books about Joyce, was called by the Observer, "the best study of Joyce that I have ever read."
Reviews
"This is the best study of Joyce that I have ever read - good-humoured and modest, learned but full of considered enthusiasm [...] Mr Burgess has written a brilliant and humane study of the most brilliant and humane of twentieth-century novelists". - Philip Toynbee in the Observer
