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Read this when I T.A.'d for Chet Anderson's Joyce course at the U Minn in grad school. And a few years later I sat next to H Levin at a convention lunch--I think Shakespeare Association of America, but possibly a regional MLA. May have learned more at that lunch than any I recall, partly because we discussed my undergrad professor and longtime correspondent (180 letters), the witty & entertaining Theodore Baird of Amherst College, who had studied at Levin's Harvard, but openly disagreed with th
Un libro ineludible para abordar la obra de James Joyce. Este trabajo clásico de Harry Levin recorre toda la producción de Joyce, desde Dublineses hasta Finnegans Wake, pasando por el incendiario Ulises. El eje de la crítica de Levin se centra en la transición joyceana del naturalismo al simbolismo. Es un eje interesante, aunque el desarrollo de las argumentaciones deja muy en claro que se trata de un eje que Joyce quiebra, excede, resignifica, recrea y destruye en la complejidad de una obra ina...
Having read Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses, I feel I need some additional bolstering before tackling Finnegan's Wake. This is the first of several books I am reading to mentally prepare for the ascent.
In this early attempt to tell the James Joyce story, Harry Levin's insights are keen and precisely stated. Levin's prose is a pleasure to read, although by necessity his perceptions are sometimes dated. He does make a number of claims about Joyce and his works which I haven't encountered elsewhere. Some assertions he makes are factually wrong, but allowances must be made: one must marvel at how penetrative an observer and a ratiocinator he was, laboring long before any of the resources and guide...
Demasiado basado en ideas personales pero a pesar de eso es iluminador.
