James joyce best book5/8/2023 Joyce was a gifted autocritic, and even today Frank Budgen's 1934 memoir about the making of Ulysses sparkles, because it is filled with the Dubliner's table-talk. Gordon Bowker demonstrates just how comprehensively the artist also sought to control the first extended works of literary analysis on Ulysses. He insulted Joyce by failing to send him a copy of the published volume. Gorman, although he accepted the main interdictions – on family privacies – was not happy with the arrangement or the outcome. What Joyce wanted was someone who would allow him control over every element of his reputation: a biografriend. Even Joyce's uneasy struggle to exclude unflattering details from the first biography of him, by Herbert Gorman, is used to explain a passing reference in Finnegans Wake to a "biografiend". N o book on James Joyce goes half as far as this one in establishing connections between passages in the classic texts and incidents in the artist's life.
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