Till relatively recently, I have had a fraught history with. This has been primarily due to my own almost pathological laziness.Thirteen years ago, while studying English literature in University College Cork, there were modules on Joyce’s work but they might as well have been courses on the life cycle of pond amoeba. In my final year, I even signed up for a course on Mills and Boon romances in order to avoid lectures on Ulysses – it’s a shameful thing to admit you picked Barbara Cartland over James Joyce.Thankfully, by my mid-twenties, I began to fight against this inertia.
1 James Joyce (1882-1941) Eveline (1914) She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne.
I made up my own reading lists, trying to fill in the gaps in my knowledge, and a solid attempt at Joyce’s work was finally made. With Ulysses, I began the audiobook (a great help, suggested in an interview by Edna O’Brien). It was later, when the O’Brien Press decided to bring out The Dublin Edition of Ulysses (an edition I worked on), that my appreciation of Joyce began to deepen. I wanted real adventure to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroadIn 2015, I put together a proposal for a third book in the O’Brien Press’s Best-Loved series.
Joyce had seemed the natural Irish author to follow on from Yeats and Wilde. However, Joyce’s work wasn’t what you’d call “bite size”. However, with a highlighter in hand, I worked through the texts.As it turned out, first impressions were wrong; there was lots of material. I focused on quotes that a reader could enjoy in a couple of minutes, be it seated on a train or cosy in bed before sleep.That is the purpose of Best-Loved Joyce. It has been created to make Joyce manageable for those who are short on time or, like me, low on concentration. Something for those who, after a day of meetings, head home, do the washing and change the crusty bed sheets, scrape mutton fat and burnt chips off the kids’ plates, ring Sky customer service and argue with India for two hours, and are fit for nothing but a glass of wine and a snore on the couch. In two or three lines of Best-Loved Joyce, they can be moved by his beautiful prose, rich with ideas and emotion.
Or maybe simply smile at Joyce’s wit, before going back to the wine and snoring.
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