On 19 September 1929 Arnold Bennett’s review of Anna Livia Plurabelle was published. The short critical review by Arnold Bennett appeared in the London Evening Standard. Bennett considered Joyce a rebel but also acknowledged that he had done ‘great stuff,’ as he put it. Unfortunately, Bennett didn’t think much of Anna Livia Plurabelle. The edition […]
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On this day…12 June
On 12 June 1930 Anna Livia Plurabelle was published in London by Faber & Faber. The ‘Anna Livia Plurabelle’ chapter of Finnegans Wake (pp. 196-216) is one of the best known and most popular in the book, and was almost certainly Joyce’s favourite. He paid a great deal of attention to the drafting and revising […]