- Biography, Irish Novelists, Irish Authors, Biografie
**James Joyce** by Richard Ellmann was published in 1959 (a revised edition was released in 1982). It provides an intimate and detailed account of the life of Irish modernist James Joyce, which informs an understanding of this author’s complex works. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce_(biography)))
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and prestige.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Richard Ellmann
- First published
- 1959
- Pages
- 842
- Publisher
- Suhrkamp Verlag, Oxford University Press, USA, Anagrama
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- German, French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9782070707560
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“We are still learning to be James Joyce's contemporaries, to understand our interpreter.”
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