The Ultimate Novel
William Empson, 19 August 1982
A Starchamber Quiry: A James Joyce Centennial Volume 1882-1982
edited by E.L. Epstein.
Methuen, 164 pp., £9.50, February 1982,0 416 31560 7 Show More
edited by E.L. Epstein.
Methuen, 164 pp., £9.50, February 1982,
“... it mean that they were never worth bothering about at all? This was presumably what caused E.M. Forster’s first reaction to the book: he said it insulted the universe, meaning that it insulted the heart of man. Kenner thought they both deserved all they got, for being heretics, so he was pleased by the ending, though he made the same error. Budgen ... ”
