If the name of Reverend Charles Robert Maturin is not only known by the amateurs of roman noir, it is because he is often associated to famous authors like Byron, Poe, Goethe, Baudelaire or Balzac. This book aims at giving a more truthful and more complete image of both Maturin and his work…

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The apparent disorder on which Joyce built Ulysses is the paradoxal result of a strong organisation principle, on the verge of dissolution. Joyce's poetics are defined by the drifts of his writing that are mastered up to the point of loosing control…

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Brian O'Nolan made himself know under the pen name Flann O’Brian as the author of the novel At-Swim-Two-Birds, precursor of postmodernism. Brian O’Nolan also wrote during 25 years and until his death the Irish Times column « Cruiskeen Lawn » under the name of Myles na Gopaleen…

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Irish literature has not received the critical attention it deserves, except for its giants: Yeats in poetry, Synge and O'Cosey in theatre, Joyce… In the genre of the novel, he is far from being the only one…

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The figure of James Joyce in Paris is no longer or hardly the wouldbe medical of 1903, disescting Aristotle and making game of Thomas Aquinas. "Prix de Paris: beware of imitations". It is somewhat that of threatened canonization which friendship still portrays. It is also, really, the author once-removed, in exchange for speech effects, a sheaf...

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Joyce à Paris, ce n'est plus, ou c'est à peine, le carabin manqué de 1903, disséquant Aristote, canulant Saint Thomas. "Prix de Paris : beware of imitations". C'est encore un peu la figure menacée de canonisation que l'amitié dessine de la voix…

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