Making Books on Joyce
After finishing the first chapter of Ulysses and embarking on the rest of the book, Karen Kenyon, author of “Joyce’s Dublin” (May 7), will find that the novel offers many interesting spots worth visiting in and around the Dublin area. In fact, all of James Joyce’s novels can be used as tour guides of turn-of-the-century Dublin. City parks, universities, pubs, libraries and government buildings discussed in the novels are still in existence, and visiting them brings an interesting life to the masterpieces in which they are featured. To discuss one building in one chapter in “Ulysses” hardly uncovers the mystique of touring Joyce’s Dublin. Yet Joyce’s novels are not simply tour guides of Dublin. His works are artistic masterpieces of style and form that have reshaped modern literature.
DANIEL KAUFMAN
Los Angeles
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