The Book of the Day details the facets of a modernist sensibility in both the Easter Rising and James Joyce's writing
Joyce’s phenomenal recall of Dublin’s topography – like naming every shop in a street from memory – is matched by evidence of scrupulous accuracy in plotting, detailing characters’ peregrinations across the city with the help of a stopwatch and a large map, but in one of the years devoted to writing Ulysses, parts of the city he knew so well were being systematically destroyed.
Easter week 1916 saw a gunboat in the Liffey lobbing shells into the city centre, and old photographs show lower Sackville Street reduced to ruins. For Luke Gibbons, in a book with its own remarkable level of detail, this is more than a grim irony. Just as some combatants in the Irish revolution and leading republicans were attracted to Joyce’s fiction, what was happening in Dublin was followed closely by the author, living in Zurich at the time. The Easter Rising, convulsively disrupting political narratives of Ireland and of the British Empire, was as avant-garde in its way as Joyce’s writing, and Luke Gibbons pursues the homology by detailing facets of a modernist sensibility in both the event and the writing.
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