Book description
In charge of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation since its inception
in 1985, Fritz Senn has studied the life and works of James Joyce for
five decades, published widely and taught across Europe and the United
States. He has been on the editorial board of all major Joyce
journals, co-founded A Wake Newsletter with Clive Hart in the 1980s
and supervised and co-ordinated the Frankfurt Joyce Edition with Klaus
Reichert from 1969 to 1971. He has also instigated and co-organized
several international Joyce Symposia. In Joycean Murmoirs, Christine
O'Neill, a Zurich Joyce scholar based in Dublin, has drawn Senn out in
numerous, wide-ranging interviews about Joyce and his works, the
global Joyce community and friends, problems of translation, Joyce and
Homer, the Zurich James Joyce Foundation, the intricacies of language
and, not least, his own life and personality. These thought-provoking
exchanges lend a privileged view of a richly eclectic literary and
cultural milieu, giving glimpses of leading scholars and commentators
from Richard Ellmann to Niall Montgomery and Anthony Burgess. They
form a fascinating composite portrait of one of Europe's foremost
international Joyceans
