Provides insight into Joyce's literary ideas, values, and background as well as his daily routine and family life as a young writer

Conversations With James Joyce

Literature & Fiction

Power, Arthur

World Literature

Univ of Chicago Pr

Conversations with James Joyce

Millington

A memoir of James Joyce, one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century, never before published in North America.
"In the ordinary sense Joyce was not a conversationalist," writes Arthur Power, in Conversations with James Joyce. An aspiring painter and art critic, Power (of the famous whiskey family) struck up a strained, somewhat prickly friendship with the master of exile, silence, and cunning at the Bal Bullier in Paris, in the year of 1921. This volume is Power’s record of the two men’s encounters and conversations, whose subjects ranged from Irish literature to American politics, and from Assyrian monuments to the individual “odor of a country,” which, Joyce assured his wide-eyed interlocutor, was “the gauge of its civilization.” Here is a rare glimpse of the private James Joyce―to Power’s great surprise, not a brash bohemian, but a steadily working, sharp-tongued, elusive man.

Conversations with James Joyce (Irish Literature)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Dalkey Archive Press

This is the first paperback edition of Arthur Power's unique and fascinating account of his friendship with James Joyce during the 1920s. Power, a young Irishman working as an art critic in Paris, first met Joyce in a Montparnasse dancehall, and the two men maintained a prickly friendship for several years. Power re-creates his conversations with the master on a remarkable range of topics, literary and otherwise. We read of Joyce's thoughts on writers past and present: Synge, Ibsen, Hardy, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gide, Proust, T. S. Eliot, Tennyson and Shakespeare. Joyce also speaks of the looming might of America ('Political influence, yes, but not cultural'); of religion ('Do you believe in the next life?' 'I don't think much of this life.'); and of his own work.

The Lilliput Press

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