Conversations with James Joyce - (Irish Literature) by Arthur Power (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br> "A memoir of one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century, never before published in North America. 'In the ordinary sense Joyce was not a conversationalist,' writes Arthur Power, author of Conversations with James Joyce. An aspiring painter and art critic, Power (of the famous whiskey family) struck up a strained, somewhat prickly friendship with the master of exile, silence, and cunning at the Bal Bullier in Paris, in the year of 1921. This volume is Power's record of the two men's encounters and conversations, whose subjects ranged from Irish literature to American politics, and from Assyrian monuments to the individual 'odor of a country,' which, Joyce assured his wide-eyed interlocutor, was 'the gauge of its civilization.' Here is a rare glimpse of the private Joyce to Power's great surprise, not a brash bohemian, but a steadily working, sharp-tongued, elusive man"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A memoir of James Joyce, one of the most important novelists of the twentieth century, never before published in North America.</b></p><p>In the ordinary sense Joyce was not a conversationalist, writes Arthur Power, in <i>Conversations with James Joyce</i>. An aspiring painter and art critic, Power (of the famous whiskey family) struck up a strained, somewhat prickly friendship with the master of exile, silence, and cunning at the Bal Bullier in Paris, in the year of 1921. This volume is Power's record of the two men's encounters and conversations, whose subjects ranged from Irish literature to American politics, and from Assyrian monuments to the individual "odor of a country," which, Joyce assured his wide-eyed interlocutor, was "the gauge of its civilization." Here is a rare glimpse of the private James Joyce--to Power's great surprise, not a brash bohemian, but a steadily working, sharp-tongued, elusive man.</p><p>Arthur Power's <i>Conversations with James Joyce</i>, edited by Clive Hart and originally published in 1974, is an important artifact relating Joyce's thoughts and opinions on past writers as well as his contemporaries: Synge, Ibsen, Hardy, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gide, Proust, Eliot, Tennyson, and Shakespeare.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Arthur Power has written an interesting and lively book. It succeeds because it is direct and unpretentious. But no portraitist, however gifted, will ever find in Joyce a good sitter."--The Times<br><br>"Fascinating glimpses of Joyce and his opinions, quite well presented by a man with different views. . . . Certainly recommended."--Complete Review<br><br>"Offers useful insights into what Joyce thought of his fellow practitioners, from Tolstoy to Kipling."--Daily Telegraph<br>
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