EP 21: Imagery of Vision in the novels of James Joyce
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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How Does Literature Change Our Lives?
LZ Granderson: James Joyce's works are sublime in their symbolism and humor. He says there have been many theories put forward over the years that speculate Joyce was a schizophrenic. LZ: If you think of novels like Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, or Tony Morrison's Beloved, these books cast such an aesthetic distressing light on the often terrible realities of life and human nature. "What we lose is very little compared to what we gain in the achievement of a humanized soul," he says.
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