Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
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The Joy of Life
"I shall never understand how so many of our fashionable critics can for so long have written of Ulysses as a pessimistic negative work I think there are 20 yeses in that last passage further loud and clear throughout the book comes Joyce's message of the bliss in being," says author. "Joyce did not have a happy life but he said yes to the life he had what I find in this book is that we have all said yes and given ourselves Bloom has given himself in his way Steven has given himself Molly has given herself in her way and we're melting now into that wonderful ocean", she adds.
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