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Conversations With James Joyce
Arthur Power
Editions
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| pbk |
Lilliput Press |
1901866146 |
£7.99 |
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Review
Apparently blessed, even in his eighties, with the power of total recall, the artist Arthur Power reconstructs his meetings with Joyce in Paris in the 1920s, just after the writer had written Ulysses. The young Irishman came to know the whole Joyce family, and the book evokes well the growth of Joyce's international celebrity. Surprisingly, they discussed the merits of various writers and artists, and we are given Joyce's rarely expressed opinions on such as Dostoyevski, Eliot, Synge, Chekhov and Proust. The effective end of the friendship came with the birth of Joyce's only grandson, Stephen, which Power (reasonably enough) failed to see as a particularly important event. This is a slight, but valuable, snapshot of the artist as a middle-aged man. - review by John Wyse Jackson (Seán)
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