The Ultimate Novel
William Empson, 2 September 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,
“... argument. I need now to list the main details throughout the book which prepare the reader for Stephen to accept the Bloom Offer. There is at once a rather quaint obstacle. Most readers of Ulysses do not believe in omens, but Joyce eagerly did; in this he is genuinely like Homer. Four of the characters receive omens, and Joyce would regard these as ... ”