Volume 40, Number 17 · October 21, 1993
Joyce's Many Lives
By Denis Donoghue
BOOKS REVIEWED IN THIS ESSAY
James Joyce: The Years of Growth 1882–1915
by Peter Costello
Pantheon, 374 pp., $30.00
James Joyce: A Literary Life
by Morris Beja
Ohio State University Press, 150 pp., $12.50 (paper)
James Joyce's Chamber Music: The Lost Song Settings
edited and with an introduction by Myra Teicher Russel
Indiana University Press, 116 pp., $19.95 (paper)
James Joyce's Chamber Music: Musical Settings by G. Molyneux Palmer
sung by Robert White, accompanied by Samuel Sanders
Indiana University Press, $10.95 (cassette)
Picking Up Airs: Hearing the Music in Joyce's Text
edited by Ruth H. Bauerle
University of Illinois Press, 220 pp., $34.95
Dubliners
by James Joyce, edited by Hans Walter Gabler, by Walter Hettche
Vintage, 455 pp., $10.00 (paper)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce, edited by Hans Walter Gabler, by Walter Hettche
Vintage, 359 pp., $9.00 (paper)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce, edited by R. B. Kershner
St. Martin's Press/Bedford Books, 404 pp., $8.00 (paper)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce, edited by Seamus Deane
Penguin, 329 pp., $7.95 (paper)
Ulysses
by James Joyce, edited by Jeri Johnson
Oxford University Press, 980 pp., £6.99 (paper)
Reflections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert's Paris Journal
edited by Thomas F. Staley, by Randolph Lewis
University of Texas Press, 103 pp., $24.95
James Joyce died on January 13, 1941. A few months later two books on him appeared, Herbert Gorman's James Joyce: A Definitive Biography and Harry Levin's James Joyce: A Critical Introduction. These books served different purposes. Gorman's was written under Joyce's supervision: it was the latest of several books in which Joyce's disciples took up the duties he assigned to them, to explain the structure of his interests and procedures, to provide a context of expressive grandeur in which his work would be appreciated, and meanwhile to present a glowing image of Joyce himself. When Gorman's book appeared, Stuart Gilbert complained in his journal that Joyce could not bring himself to give Gorman a free hand or let him show 'the real Joyce.'
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