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This latest installment of the "Penguin Lives" series is well received, even though it trails Richard Ellman's definitive 900-page Joyce tome, which was deemed "probably this century's best biography of a writer" (David Kippen, the San Francisco Chronicle ). Undaunted, novelist O'Brien attempts something entirely different: She gives 179 pages of "hardheaded hagiography in which she spends a lot of time knocking Joyce around" (Robert Sullivan, the New York Times Book Review ). It's notable not for its wide net, but for its precision, economy, and insight: "a first-rate appraisal of a master … a model of pristine brevity" (Robert Taylor, the Boston Globe ). One complaint: The book contains an "impressive number of inaccuracies of a factual nature," such as misidentifying the poet laureate of Victorian Ireland and misquoting critic Walter Pater (Thomas Flannagan, the Los Angeles Times ). (This Joyce site has essays, links, and message boards on the author.)
3. The Greek translators of the Hebrew Bible some 300 years or more before the composition of the New Testament were not misquoting the Hebrew; they were doing the difficult work of translation from one language into another.
I was less surprised by an advertisement of an outfit that offered visiting Americans summer courses at Cambridge and Oxford, misquoting Matthew Arnold, Oxford ... whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Ages.
The reviewer quotes five dedications (misquoting one) and merely says they seem to him “neither funny nor clever.”
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