James Joyce’s noisy masterpiece
The allure that difficult writing has, whether it be a sacred text or honorary sacred texts of a more secular stamp such as Pound’s Cantos or Ulysses, is well nigh unfathomable.
On 2 February 1922, the first printed copy of Ulysses was delivered to James Joyce in his Paris apartment by his publisher, Sylvia Beach. But where did the author find inspiration for this ‘glorious book of howling disorder’?
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