PARIS IN THE 1920s
When James Joyce arrived in Paris in 1920, he intended to stay for one week, then move on to London and possibly Dublin to finish writing Ulysses. Instead he remained for almost 20 years, during which he published Ulysses and wrote and published Finnegans Wake.
Paris in the 1920s attracted vast numbers of writers and artists from America, Britain and Ireland. Many of them befriended Joyce, among them Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
But it was those who came from Ireland who held a special place in his heart: Samuel Beckett, Thomas MacGreevy, Padraic and Mary Colum, James Stephens and others.
A Little Circle of Kindred Minds: Joyce in Paris looks at Joyce's relationship with these and other writers. It describes how he took advantage of their friendship by getting them to run errands, write articles publicising his Work in Progress (later to be called Finnegans Wake) and stood over them while they did so. It explores how Joyce was given vast sums of money, then fell out with the women who had helped him, Sylvia Beach and Harriet Weaver.
Paris in the 1920s attracted vast numbers of writers and artists from America, Britain and Ireland. Many of them befriended Joyce, among them Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
But it was those who came from Ireland who held a special place in his heart: Samuel Beckett, Thomas MacGreevy, Padraic and Mary Colum, James Stephens and others.
A Little Circle of Kindred Minds: Joyce in Paris looks at Joyce's relationship with these and other writers. It describes how he took advantage of their friendship by getting them to run errands, write articles publicising his Work in Progress (later to be called Finnegans Wake) and stood over them while they did so. It explores how Joyce was given vast sums of money, then fell out with the women who had helped him, Sylvia Beach and Harriet Weaver.
