![]() ![]() Originally published in 1922, "Ulysses" was not legally available in the United States until eleven years later, when United States Judge John Monro Woolsey handed down his famous decision to the effect that the book was not obscene. Widely read novel, "Ulysses," as one which only could have been written "in an advanced stage of psychic disintegration." Eliot among the "Unintelligibles" and there was Professor Irving Babbitt of Harvard who dismissed his most On the other hand, there were critics like Max Eastman who gave him a place with Gertrude Stein and T.S. In the opinion of some critics, notably Edmund Wilson, he deserved to rank with the great innovators of literature as one whose influence upon other writers of his time was The status of James Joyce as a writer never could be determined in his lifetime. His wife and son were at the hospital when he died. Only yesterday his son reported him to have been cheerful and apparently out of danger.ĭuring the afternoon, however, the writer suffered a sudden relapse and sank rapidly. Joyce underwent an intestinal operation Saturday afternoon at the Schwesternhaus von Rotenkreuz Hospital. URICH, Switzerland, Monday, Jan 13- James Joyce, Irish author whose "Ulysses" was the center of one of the most bitter literary controversies of modern times,ĭied in a hospital here early today despite the efforts of doctors to save him by blood transfusions. James Joyce Dies Wrote 'Ulysses' By THE NEW YORK TIMES ![]()
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