Jul 8, 2008

a long the riverrun | a long the riverrun

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Author: Richard Ellmann
First Published: 1989
Type of Work: Literary criticism
Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
Subjects: Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, Writing, Novelists, Storytelling

Before his death on May 13, 1987, Richard Ellmann completed work on what was soon to become his second critically acclaimed biography, of Oscar Wilde, prepared a revised edition of his first, on James Joyce, and somehow found time to begin planning the collection of essays under review here, a long the riverrun. The title, although apparently provided by the publisher, is nevertheless apt, conflating the last words of James Joyce’s last novel, Finnegans Wake (1939) and its first, those which conclude with those which begin, in much the same way the essays collected here,...

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a long the riverrun | a long the riverrun

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