The author of one of the greatest of modern biographies lucidly disentwines the narrative, ethical, aesthetic, and ultimate levels of Joyce's masterpiece. Much of the evidence is internal, but he also makes the first use of some important indications by Joyce himself.

Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more.

Although known primarily as the irreverent but dazzlingly witty playwright who penned The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde was also an able and farsighted critic. He was an early advocate of criticism as an independent branch of literature and stressed its vital role in the creative process. Scholars continue to debate many of Wilde's critical positions.
Included in Richard Ellmann's impressive collection of Wilde's criticism, The Artist as Critic, is a wide selection of Wilde's book reviews as well as such famous longer works as "The Portrait of Mr. W.H.," "The Soul...

Stanislaus Joyce was more than his brother's keeper: he was at various times his brother's co-dependent, touchstone, conscience, and biggest fan. The two shared the same genius, the same childhood influences, and had the same literary instinct, but in Stanislaus it was channeled into sober academic pursuit, while in James it evolved into gaiety, wild whimsy, and at times sodden despair.Covering the first twenty-two years of James Joyce's life in Dublin and Trieste, My Brother's Keeper is a window onto the drama that was his youth. Thanks to Stanislaus's superb memory and sure hand, here we...

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Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and writing of this biography, resulting in a complex and richly detailed portrait of Oscar Wilde. Ellman captures the wit, creativity, and charm of the psychologically and sexually complicated writer, as well as the darker aspects of his personality and life. Covering everything from Wilde's rise as a young...

This acclaimed biography has won both the James Tait Black and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prizes.

Briefe I zeigt die Stationen des jungen Joyce in Dublin, Paris, Triest, Pola, Rom und Zürich. Zu den eindrucksvollsten Zeugnissen gehören die werbenden Briefe des Zweiundzwanzigjährigen an Nora Barnacle und fünf Jahre später dann die alternierend vor Eifersucht tobenden und in skatologischer Sehnsucht sich verzehrenden Brandschreiben Joyces. Den größten Raum nehmen im vorliegenden Band die Briefe an den Bruder Stanislaus ein, in denen sich neben lakonischen Aufforderungen, Geld zu beschaffen - unschätzbare Kommentare zum Werk finden. Ein weiterer Komplex sind die Briefe an Verleger,...

Der zweite Band der Briefe von James Joyce setzt 1917 in Zürich ein. Die zentralen Ereignisse der Zürcher Jahre sind die Begegnung mit Martha Fleischmann und die sich anbahnende Freundschaft mit Frank Budgen. Die voyeuristische Fleischmann-Affäre prägte das Nausikaa-Kapitel des Ulysses, und später, in Finnegans Wake, ist Earwickers Verbrechen im Phönix Park ein später Reflex dieser dunklen Geschichte. Und der englische Maler Frank Budgen übernahm in jenen Jahren mehr und mehr die Funktion als Vertrauter und Freund, Budgen, der später das neben Stuart Gilberts Rätsel Ulysses...