On 29 September 1920 Joyce wrote to Frank Budgen about the ‘Circe’ episode. Joyce had been working on the ‘Circe’ episode of Ulysses at the same time as he was preparing to leave Trieste for Paris in the summer of 1920. Having relied on Frank Budgen as a sounding-board while he was in Zurich, Joyce […]
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On this day…3 June
On 3 June 1930 Stuart Gilbert’s book James Joyce’s Ulysses – A Study was published. The book was the first full-length study of Ulysses and still today provides interesting insights into the structure of the book and its parallels with Homer’s Odyssey. Gilbert had read Ulysses while he was in Burma where he was a […]
On this day…9 May
On 9 May 1927 Stuart Gilbert contacted Joyce for the first time. This letter of 9 May 1927 was Joyce’s first contact with Stuart Gilbert who was to become an important friend and promoter of Joyce’s work. He played an important role in correcting the text of Ulysses and in producing the French translation of […]