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Exiles, James Joyce - John Rodker, Israel Solon, Samuel A. Tannenbaum, and jh (essay date 1919)

John Rodker, Israel Solon, Samuel A. Tannenbaum, and jh (essay date 1919)

SOURCE: Rodker, John, Israel Solon, Samuel A. Tannenbaum, and jh. “Exiles, A Discussion of James Joyce's Play.” Little Review 5, no. 9 (January 1919): 20–27.

[In the following essay, four authors discuss their own opinions about Exiles.]

BY JOHN RODKER

Again in this play Mr. Joyce exploits that part of mind merging on the subconscious. The drama is one of will versus instinct, the protagonist Richard Rowan, a writer. This particular psychological triangle is one of barely comprehended instincts, desires for freedom (equally undefined), emotions that hardly crystallise before fading out. Inter-action of thought and will is carried so close to this borderline that the reader fears continually lest he miss any implication. Analysis digs continually deeper. At a certain moment it is lost. Mind will go no further.

People are built on no plan...

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