Word: joycean
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...Germans, Englishmen and Frenchmen to get his material; and it is otherwise obvious that many of the episodes here are factual. But even in warfare, carnage is relieved by inactivity or restless boredom. The only respite Kuniczak gives his readers is short inconsequential conversations and brief bursts of attempted Joycean lyricism. Laboriously, he relates the personal agonies of a one-armed Polish general and his mistress, a disillusioned American correspondent, a Jewish conscript from the Warsaw ghetto and an idealistic young Nazi officer. Kuniczak seldom strays far from the heated sights and shrieks of battle. At any rate, he seems...
...COACH WITH THE SIX INSIDES is a kaleidoscopic view of Finnegans Wake expressed in dance and drama and some of the more devilish passages of Joycean imagery. Jean Erdman conceived and directed this bright entertainment...
SNOW WHITE, by Donald Barthelme. A zany, explosive adult version of the old fairy tale, told with Joycean zest by a gifted young (36) anarchist in the world of words...
...COACH WITH THE SIX INSIDES, originally presented in 1962, as Jean Erdman's phantasmagorial interpretation of Finnegans Wake, blending the richness of Joycean language with drama techniques and music and dance for an intensely imaginative evening of theater...
...work creates the impression that something miraculous happened to him overnight-as if, blind from birth, he could suddenly see, or, fluent only in Urdu, he abruptly grasped English entire. The result is quite an explosion, a staccato burst of verbal star shells, pinwheel phrases, cherry bombs of Joycean puns and wordplays. Such a book is Snow White, an amusingly refurbished fairy-tale novel of the absurd-as episodic and pointless as a slow-turning kaleidoscope, yet just as strangely affecting...