Joyce: A Graphic Guide

‘David Norris … is almost single-handedly responsible for rehabilitating Joyce in once disapproving Irish eyes.’ Roddy Doyle, Guardian

James Joyce was a great pioneer of modernism, and the author of Ulysses, one of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century. His work is deeply human, enormously comic, and compelling reading – despite the myth of its ‘difficulty’.

Irish presidential candidate, Senator and campaigner David Norris provides a unique introductory map to the labyrinth of Joyce's visionary Dublin, on which all of his writings are obsessively focused. He takes us step by step from the early stories into the sprawling comic universe of Ulysses, and finally to the mythic dreamworld of Finnegans Wake. This is the perfect introduction to a key cultural icon, enlivened by Carl Flint’s boisterous illustrations.