{"product_id":"9781843513094","title":"Conversations With James Joyce","description":"\u003cp\u003e'In the Dublin of my day there was the kind of desperate freedom which comes from a lack of responsibility, for the English were in governance then, so everyone said what he liked. Now I hear since the Free State came in there is less freedom. The Church has made inroads everywhere, so that we are in fact becoming a bourgeois nation, with the Church supplying our aristocracy, and I do not see much hope for us intellectually. Once the Church is in command she will devour everything..'\u003cbr\u003e-James Joyce in conversation with Arthur Power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the first paperback edition of Arthur Power's unique and fascinating account of his friendship with James Joyce during the 1920s. Power, a young Irishman working as an art critic in Paris, first met Joyce in a Montparnasse dancehall, and the two men maintained a prickly friendship for several years. Power re-creates his conversations with the master, on a remarkable range of topics, literary and otherwise. We read of Joyce's thoughts on writers past and present: Synge, Ibsen, Hardy, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gide, Proust, T.S. Eliot, Tennyson and Shakespeare. Joyce also speaks of the looming might of America ('Political influence, yes, but not cultural'); of religion ('Do you believe in a next life?' 'I don't think much of this life'); and of his own work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lilliput Press, Limited, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180070125808,"sku":"9781843513094","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781843513094_p0.jpg?v=1769894090","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781843513094","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}