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Guy de Maupassant was born OTD 175 years ago. "He is an excellent writer," James Joyce said in a letter to Stanislaus in 1905. "His tales are sometimes a little slipshod but that was hardly to be avoided, given the circumstances of his life."
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OTD 75 years ago Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his sister Elena: "Don't read Sartre—fashionable nonsense, already forgotten, and Miller is talentless obscenity. When I want good reading, I reread Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu or Joyce's Ulysses."
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OTD in 1968 JP Donleavy wrote to his friend AK Donoghue: “Went on a MONU-MENTAL DRUNK. Was told I stripped stark naked. Told the people I loved everyone and would make them all rich, famous, and happy.”
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an intuitive particoloured clown in quest of paternity had penetrated from the ring to a place in the auditorium where Bloom, solitary, was seated and had publicly declared to an exhilarated audience that he (Bloom) was his (the clown's) papa
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Austrian poet Ernst Jandl was born OTD 100 years ago. He used techniques borrowed from James Joyce, notably in the poem wien : heldenplatz. He and Friederike Mayröcker were partners for many years; she wrote Requiem for Ernst Jandl when he died.
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“Jack Kerouac turned out to be a gateway drug to James Joyce and Ulysses, and both eventually persuaded him to quit his job and move to Barcelona so that he could live ‘somewhat self-consciously … the life of a novelist’”.
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The Future of the Novel is a short, elegant book that is really three essays in one. It begins as a potted history of the form, organized chronologically, like the diary of an ageless Bridget Jones...
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Irvine Welsh: ‘Don’t read Ulysses as a story, just trip on the language’.
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The Trainspotting author also champions Samantha Harvey’s Orbital and low-fi novels with the ‘courage to fly defiantly against the banality of our times’
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Sci-Fi author James Blish died OTD in 1975. He referenced James Joyce in Spock Must Die!, a Star Trek novel.
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RT @triztrooper: @luke_leisher_ Hi. I'm a rocket scientist. Try and write a novel. Something that will make people, laugh, or cry, or fee….
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‘City of singles’: cosmopolitan prewar Paris’s ‘crazy years’ brought to life.
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Database of 8m handwritten census entries paints portrait of city that was hub for intellectuals, artists and young, single people
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The burst of magic reveals the location of Smurf Village and a long-hidden magical book that, if reunited with three others, confers world domination. (Fun fact: This is also what happens if you reunify all first editions of James Joyce’s “Ulysses.”).
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As a reader, is there a particular novel you return to?. On a desert island, I’d take Ulysses….it’s still the greatest novel in English. - @JoyceCarolOates .
observer.co.uk
The celebrated and prolific novelist discusses her latest book, the trend for autofiction and the magic of Ulysses
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Farrington stood a drink all round. Weathers said he would take a small Irish and Apollinaris. - Counterparts. July 20 is the feast day of Saint Apollinaris. The water named after him is referenced in works by James Joyce, Jerome K Jerome, GB Shaw, Anthony Trollope and others.
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I…shall now rock myself into literature by reading Ulysses!. - Virginia Woolf diary entry
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Poet and translator Mary de Rachewiltz is 100 today. She was born Maria Rudge, the daughter of violinist Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound. She translated her father’s Cantos into Italian.
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July 8 is the feast day of Priscilla and Aquila, patron saints of good marriages
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Actor and director Arthur Storch, who was the psychiatrist in The Exorcist, was born in Brooklyn OTD 100 years ago. He directed a production of Waiting for Godot at the Charles Playhouse in Boston In 1967-68. Danny Meehan played Vladimir and Will Hare played Estragon.
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