Word: ulyssean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann. A Ulyssean portrait, fashioned out of minute detail, of the purposefully enigmatic author, here demystified but not debunked...
...minute factual detail, Ellmann fashions a Ulyssean portrait that has the lived-with, lived-through intensity of a major novel. Never before have people so painfully close to Joyce stepped so personably out of the shadow of his reputation. There is his father John, a barroom wit and tosspot, would-be singer and doctor, who sired ten children and saddled his brood with eleven mortgages. There is Joyce's wife Nora, a Galway girl with a tart tongue and no head for "that chop suey he's writing," as she once said of Finnegans Wake. There is Brother...
More Than Meets the Eye, by Carl Mydans. A crack photographer shelves his camera and relies on the language of the heart to describe his Ulyssean voyages over the battlefronts of the last 2½ decades...