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Book SynopsisMy book does not pretend to scholarship, only to a desire to help the average reader who wants to know Joyce's work but has been scared off by the professors. The appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke; the profundities are always expressed in good round Dublin terms; Joyce's heroes are humble men.
Trade Review"Recognizing the coming and cosmic in Joyce, [Burgess] proceeds with his self-imposed task of unraveling meaning by scrutinizing the layers of a mind that was encyclopedic in dimension. . . . He has defined the perimeter of Joyce's adventure in both
Ulysses and
Finnegans Wake. . . . It took Burgess to place Joyce's satire in its proper orbit." -- Saturday Review
"Burgess has written a study of the most brilliant and humane of twentieth-century humanists." -- Philip Toynbee - The Observer
