Joyce, James
Joyce, James (1882–1941),Irish writer. In the novel Ulysses (published by Shakespeare and Company, 1922), chapter IX (Scylla and Charybdis) is set in the director's office of the National Library in Dublin. The hero, Stephen Dedalus, discusses Shakespeare with the poet George Russell (AE), John Eglinton, and the librarian Lyster. Following the Danish critic Georg Brandes, Joyce (through Stephen) ironically ‘proves by algebra that Hamlet's grandson is Shakespeare's grandfather and that he himself is the ghost of his own father’. In fact, fatherhood and creativity remain a central mystery of both Hamlet and Ulysses.
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