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Autumn 1962 • Vol. XXIV No. 4 • Nonfiction |

The Hours of James Joyce, Part I

By Jacques Mercanton, translated by Lloyd C. Parks

Preface

I knew Joyce only in the concluding years of his life, at the time he was completing his last work, Finnegans Wake. The portrait the reader will find in these pages is of that Joyce.

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