Years of Bloom James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920

"McCourt meticulously positions Joyce's work of this decade against the political and cultural currents swirling around him in his Adriatic exile....In the years since Ellmann's tour de force, too many Joyce studies have been inward-looking, focused on the writer rather than the reader: either fixated on the internalised hermaneutics of the academic industry, or conveying a cloying sense of self-congratulation for the author's own 'understanding' of the master. THE YEARS OF BLOOM evades this danger: the harbour of Trieste offers a new perspective on the life which, of all artist's lives, seems in a real sense heroic."McCourt, John is the author of 'Years of Bloom James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920', published 2000 under ISBN 9780299169800 and ISBN 0299169804.