Joyce

Ian Pindar is a writer and editor. He wrote the Guardian "Diary", "Critical Eye" and "Déjà vu" columns for many years and reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement. He was an editor at The Harvill Press and before that at Weidenfeld & Nicolson. He co-translated The Three Ecologies by the French philosopher Félix Guattari. His poetry collections, Emporium and Constellations, are published by Carcanet, and he was shortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection. His poems have appeared in The Forward Book of Poetry, The London Magazine, Magma, PN Review, Poetry Review and the Times Literary Supplement. He lives in Oxfordshire.Terry Eagleton is a renowned literary theorist and critic. Eagleton has published over forty books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction. He is Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University and lives in Northern Ireland.

'Pindar has skilfully made the process of understanding the complex relationship between Joyce's life and work "fun again".'

• Preface 1From Baby Tuckoo to Sunny Jim 21The Dante of Dublin 41The Wanderer 55Nora 67‘Self exiled upon his ego’ 79‘Ominous – for him!’ 93‘Litterarum Anglicarum Pontifex Maximus’ 105‘The Blue Book of Eccles’ 133‘O! Infamy!’ 149‘The Strangest Dream that was ever Halfdreamt’ 157‘Inkbattle’ 179Envoy: ‘mememormee!’ 203Notes 209List of Works 236Further Reading 238Acknowledgements 247Index 248