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“I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant.”

A celebrated glimpse of Joyce’s playful awareness of the interpretative machinery his work would provoke. · Conversation about Ulysses, as reported by Richard Ellmann

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James Joyce

2 February 1882–13 January 1941

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, then a prosperous southern suburb of Dublin, and died on 13 January 1941 in Zürich, Switzerland. He is most often called a novelist, and rightly so: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake…

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