James Joyce

"This immensely detailed, massive, completely detached and objective, yet loving biography, translates James Joyce's books back into his life. One closes it with the impression that everything that any friend of his or that he himself said or did, every detail of his family life, became verbalized and stored away in his mind as material he might put into his books...Mr. Ellmann is to be respected, for, although Joycean, his love of his subject never comes between Joyce and the reader. Indeed, he writes with a cool and masterful detachment, which allows the reader to approach Joyce with a completely open mind, something liking the warm humanity, sometimes detesting the cold arrogance of the man, always having the sense that he who was often a fool in his life was always wise in his work."Ellmann, Richard is the author of 'James Joyce', published 1983 under ISBN 9780195033816 and ISBN 0195033817.