Conversations with James Joyce - Couverture souple

Power, Arthur

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1628972718 ISBN 13 : 9781628972719

Editeur : Dalkey Archive Press, 2020

Synopsis

A memoir of James Joyce, one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century, never before published in North America.

In the ordinary sense Joyce was not a conversationalist, writes Arthur Power, in Conversations with James Joyce. An aspiring painter and art critic, Power (of the famous whiskey family) struck up a strained, somewhat prickly friendship with the master of exile, silence, and cunning at the Bal Bullier in Paris, in the year of 1921. This volume is Power's record of the two men's encounters and conversations, whose subjects ranged from Irish literature to American politics, and from Assyrian monuments to the individual "odor of a country," which, Joyce assured his wide-eyed interlocutor, was "the gauge of its civilization." Here is a rare glimpse of the private James Joyce--to Power's great surprise, not a brash bohemian, but a steadily working, sharp-tongued, elusive man.

Arthur Power's Conversations with James Joyce, edited by Clive Hart and originally published in 1974, is an important artifact relating Joyce's thoughts and opinions on past writers as well as his contemporaries: Synge, Ibsen, Hardy, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gide, Proust, Eliot, Tennyson, and Shakespeare.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Arthur Power (1891-1984) was raised in Waterford, Ireland, and served in the First World War before moving to Paris, where he socialized with the sculptor Jo Davidson, interviewed Amadeo Modigliani, and became a regular visitor to the Joyce home. After ten years in France, Power moved back home to Ireland to try to manage the family estate and was for a long time an art critic for The Irish Times. He is also the author of From the Old Waterford House (1940).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dalkey Archive Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1628972718
• ISBN 13: 9781628972719
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
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