Chamber Music (Paperback)

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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its highly controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland, Joyce's fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin, providing the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. In particular, his tempestuous early relationship with the Irish Roman Catholic Church is reflected through a similar inner conflict in his recurrent alter ego Stephen Dedalus. As the result of his minute attentiveness to a personal locale and his self-imposed exile and influence throughout Europe, Joyce became simultaneously one of the most cosmopolitan and one of the most local of all the great English language writers. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 46 pages
• Publisher: Grossman Publishers; 1st edition (December 27, 1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670211273
• ISBN-13: 978-0670211272
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,955,049 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Innocence!, April 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Chamber Music (Hardcover)

Here you can find pure and beautiful words from the century author! Lovely to read simple words from the author who wrote ULYSS. because this book is out of print,have a taste:

STRINGS IN THE EARTH AND AIR

MAKE MUSIC SWEET

STRINGS BY THE RIVER WHERE

THE WILLOWS MEET.

THERE'S MUSIC ALONG THE RIVER

FOR LOVERS WANDERS THERE

PALE FLOWERS ON HIS MANTLE

DARK LEAVES ON HIS HAIR.

ALL SOFTLY PLAYING

WITH HEAD TO THE MUSIC BENT

AND FINGERS STRAYING

UPON AN INSTRUMENT.........

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY THIS EDITION, February 28, 2009

By	C. Kavanaugh - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Chamber Music (Paperback)

This a terrible edition of Joyce's first published book. The binding is flimsy, and the book is poorly put together. Many of the poems are not properly printed--for example, most of poems appear in paragraph form! Don't waste your money on it.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A mystery, January 20, 2005

By	Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Chamber Music (Collected Works of James Joyce) (Library Binding)

Why are the little lyrics of the genius Joyce unlike the little lyrics of Blake, or Emily Dickinson, or William Butler Yeats? Why are the little lyrics of this great lyric artist so minor, and however their charm and music, of minor significance? Is it because Joyce has much greater lyrical works, with it being possible to argue that Finnegans Wake is one long poem alone? Or is it because the minor perceptions and feelings here do not strike us to the depth of the soul as the lyrics of Dickinson or Blake do?
As words of a great genius these small poems are valuable. As little poems of pleasure they also make sense. But had Joyce written only them he would not be remembered today. The same cannot be said of Dubliners or a Portrait or Ulysses.