John Stanislaus Joyce

The Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce's Father

John Wyse Jackson, Peter Costello

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Състояние:: Отлично
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

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Издателство:: St Martin's Press
Град на издаване:: New York
Година:: 1998 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 493
Корици:: Твърди
Категория:: Мемоари, биографии, писма
ISBN:: 9780312185992

Jackson (London Times and Spectator) and Costello (James Joyce: The Years of Growth: 1882-1915, LJ 2/15/93) have written a well-researched biography of James Joyce's father, a stereotypical Irish "character." Readers looking for an engaging portrait of a colorful Irish life in the same vein as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes will be disappointed, if they haven't already been scared off by the book's bland title. Instead, they will find a straightforward study that helps illuminate the great writer. Born in Cork in 1849 to an established middle-class family, John Stanislaus, though enrolled in medical college, did not show great academic promise, preferring instead athletics, music, and drink. Working in Dublin as a secretary in a distilling company, he married May Murray in 1880, and in 1882 James was born. The relationship between father and son was close, but the elder Joyce (who died in 1931) never demonstrated pride in his son's literary success. Yet John Stanislaus was surely the model for many of James's characters and as such is a worthy topic of study for Joyce scholars. Jackson and Costello note, for example, that Leopold Bloom's stream of consciousness can be attributed to John Stanislaus's "tipsy mutteringafter a day out on the town."