Re: Joyce, Episode 84a: Joyce Enjoying Joyce

Frank unfolds Joyce's daily life in Zurich, which he in many ways abandoned to live in the Dublin of his Ulysses.

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[Peter Chrisp]

Another great podcast. Joyce was just the same when he was writing Finnegans Wake. In 1936, in Copenhagen, he said to Ole Vinding, 'I haven't lived a normal life since 1922, when I began 'Work in Progress.' It demands an enormous amount of concentration....Since 1922 my book has become more real to me than reality, and everything else has led to it; all other things have become insurmountable difficulties, even the smallest realities such as, for instance, having to shave in the morning...'
'Are you writing while you are here?'
'I am always writing.'
He smiled, 'It pleases me very much.'

Ole Vinding, 'James Joyce in Copenhagen', Portraits of the Artist in Exile, p149-50