The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920
The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920
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Author: John McCourtCouldn't load pickup availability
Winner of the Premio Commisso in Italy for Best Biography 2004.
‘McCourt has opened a whole new vista on Ulysses. No other critic or biographer has so clearly identified the cosmopolitan, indeed, the Oriental, aspects of Joyce’s great symphony of cities. …. His book is a revelation.’ – John Banville, The New York Review of Books
Since the publication of Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce in 1959, Joyce has received remarkably little biographical attention. The Years of Bloom, based on extensive scrutiny of previously unused sources and informed by the author’s intimate knowledge of the culture and dialect of Trieste, is possibly the most important work of Joyce biography since Ellmann, re-creating this fertile period in Joyce’s life with an extraoridinary richness of detail and depth of understanding. Now available in paperback.
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ISBN: 9781901866711
Extent: 321
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Praise and Reviews
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‘The Years of Bloom is an engaging, readable, and meticulous study. By scrutinising unpublished material and undertaking an elaborate survey of local sources McCourt has added much to our sum of knowledge about Joyce. More importantly, he has enriched our reading of Joyce’s works … this absorbing book encourages us to expand the contexts in which we engage with Joyce’s fiction.’ – Anne Fogarty, The Irish Times
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‘John McCourt brings to his task a uniquely rich and balanced sense of the real city inhabited by Joyce and the remembered city about which he was always writing. Joyce is given to us in this book in the kind of loving detail his talent deserves, though without papering over his often reprehensible behaviour and character.’ – Bruce Arnold, Irish Independent
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‘McCourt’s excellent local knowledge of Trieste is documented to great effect in The Years of Bloom. It provides a compelling case for re-evaluating the importance of Trieste for Joyce’s work by relating his artistic development to the cosmopolitan life of the city.’ – John Nash, Sunday Business Post
About the Author
John McCourt was born in Dublin in 1965 and educated at Belvedere College and University College Dublin. Since 1991 he has lived in Trieste, where he teaches at the University of Trieste and where he founded and directs the annual Trieste Joyce School. He is the author of James Joyce: A Passionate Exile (an illustrated biography), Dubliners: A Guide to Text Analysis, and, with Renzo Crivelli, Joyce in Svevo’s Garden.