James Joyce – a genius, but not a very nice man

James Joyce – a genius, but not a very nice man A 1934 portrait of James Joyce by Jacques-Émile Blanche

There has been so much focus on James Joyce’s Ulysses – published on February 2, 1922 – that some readers and viewers of public media complain they’re being “force fed” Joyce’s famous oeuvre. And some find the depictions of masturbation, to say the least, unedifying. Well, Ulysses certainly was almost universally regarded as a ‘dirty…

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