Philip Toynbee, The Observer
A brilliant and humane study of the most brilliant and humane of the twentieth-century novelists.
Saturday Review
Recognizing the coming and cosmic in Joyce, [Burgess] proceeds with his self-imposed task of unraveling meaning by scrutinizing the layers of a mind that was encyclopedic in dimension. . . . He has defined the perimeter of Joyce's adventure in both
Ulysses and
Finnegan's Wake. . . . It took Burgess to place Joyce's satire in its proper orbit.
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