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In a message dated 17/02/2007 22:18:10 GMT Standard Time, nabokv-l@UTK.EDU
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EDNote: Can anyone locate this Waugh quote?
Subject: Curious speculation
Charles wrote: "....I once saw Evelyn Waugh remark in an interview that
James Joyce spent his life slowly going completely mad, and that you can
see this quite clearly in his writing; ie Finnegans Wake is the work of
a madman, nearing his end."
Could this be true??
Walter Miale
You can be quite certain that I haven't made it up. The interview was on
British television, and it must have taken place before 1980, when I ceased
watching tv --- except very occasionally, when I'm in someone else's house. I
regret I can't remember the context. Waugh did not say that Finnegans Wake was
the work of a madman, but he implied it by saying that Joyce gradually went
mad, and that you could see it in his books. Presumably he was thinking of
Joyce's progress from Dubliners and the Portrait of an Artist, through Ulysses
to Finnegans Wake. Even if you disagree with Waugh, which I'm sure you do, it
is possible to see what he meant.
Charles
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