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According to whim, I can be part of it all or stay outside. One of my disadvantages is that I never took a Joyce course. One of my advantages is that I never took a Joyce course. You can observe things better [from the outside]. The price is some intellectual narrowness.

The career you have created is enviable.

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I admire that you are apart from the academic rigmarole, but presumably there was a time when you may have veered more towards that life? There was a time when I thought an academic career might be enviable. By some strange coincidence—everything in life depends on coincidence —I was invited in to the University of Buffalo where they have the big Joyce Collection and a summer school where some of my Joycean friends had been teaching.

I overcame my fear, went and I liked it. I had something to pass on; what had been a. So I liked the academic life I had experienced. I toyed with the idea of having an academic position in the States. I never made any serious move, however, and at the time people like me, who only have a limited scope, one single melody, were in little demand.

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I happened to fall into the second narrow category by constitution. I am glad now not to be moored in some University, subject to its requirements and at the mercy of intellectual fashions and the constraint of literary theories. Jumping to recent events, are you able to discuss the controversy surrounding the release of The Cats of Copenhagen? The Foundation received a donation of lots of original stuff a few years ago, generously given by Hans Jahnke, an in-law of the Joyce family.

It comprises a lot of documents, notes, additions to Finnegans Wake , and quite a cache of letters, and photographs, as well as ephemera.

Among the letters there is a very short one, a page and a half, where Joyce writes to his grandson that there are no cats in Copenhagen. The short followup is a charming piece, written in a fairylike tone. As you know, all the material we have, and we have a lot, is open for inspection. It is the purpose of libraries to make their holdings accessible for the benefit of scholars and readers. Somebody we know —no mention of any names —must have copied the letter, as others have been free to do.

Then in February last year we heard that anew Ithys Press in Dublin was going to publish the letter, as they wrote us just before it became a fact out of the blue.

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We never imagined anybody would do that, behind our back, without asking us or informing us in good time. The Foundation, of course, does not have and never claimed copyright of the letter; this belongs to the Joyce Estate. But legally the owner of a document must also give permission. So this publication, an expensive limited edition, happened behind our back, without our knowledge, agreement, permission or connivance.

We also had assumed that the expiration of Joyce copyright would not include all the unpublished material, which would still be under seal for an indeterminate time. The legal situation is extremely confused and obscure with different laws obtaining in different countries.

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At any rate, we were shocked and felt betrayed. I made it quite clear to newspapers that we had nothing to do with the act of which we were ignorant. If publication is legally possible at all we would have liked at least to be given an option. A bitter taste is left behind. I know how congenial the staff at the. Foundation are and I certainly benefited from the open-access to the resources.

You received quite a lot of sympathy from those who had visited the Foundation. The main issue is that trust has been broken, the kind of trust among scholars without which we could not function. Foundation has been and will remain open to scholars. Most of our visitors are known, familiar or even friends. We are a financially weak institution. We cannot engage in law suits. It was never our intention to publish and make money from the letter. One of the editions of The Cats of Copenhagen is being sold for a large sum of money?

They did an expensive bibliophile edition, for collectors. It has now been published in the States in a commercial edition.

Again, it happened without our knowing or consent. We still believe, naively, that as sole owners of the document we ought to have a say in its publication.

Let 5 focus on a more pleasant subject: There had been a reading group before the Foundation. I told you I have been doing Joyce courses for the Zurich university, but not part of the faculty. Once we had the Foundation, the Ulysses reading was transferred there.

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The Foundation should not be a noun —a substantive —but a verb: We have the time, the place, the background, and something to hand on to the community—to Zurich. The reading groups have become an institution, a part in the cultural life of our city.

By now we have no fewer than four such groups, two each on Ulysses and Finnegans Wake even if this is straining our forces and resources. Ulysses normally takes about three years, Finnegans Wake around eleven! Participants come from as far as Basel, Berne or St. How has your reading of the texts altered over the years? The selected papers of the Symposium were published in Brill Publications, no. He is currently working on a monograph on Joyce, to be published 2 February To date, Kosters has published four collections of poetry; selections from his creative work were translated into English, German and French for more information, see www.

In he was awarded the annual Turing Poetry Award. He holds an Honours degree from the University of Wales and an M. He is a commissioning editor for the Irish Studies Review Routledge and is on the Editorial Board of several journals. She is also the translator of F. Her works challenge a system of imposed censorship of literature. Wright, Naomi Klein, among others. She has also authored 4 novels in the Persian language on themes which reveal underlying social issues in Iran.

He has played a key role in shaping Joyce Studies and has written widely on all aspects of Joyce's work, especially on Joyce and translation and on Joyce's use of Classical literature. A volume of interviews tracing his recollections of the global Joyce community, The Joycean Murmoirs, was published in , edited by Christine O'Neill. Focus On Joyce on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle? Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: Share your thoughts with other customers.

Write a customer review. Showing of 1 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Symposia had entrance fees? Oh to be 22 again. She explained Joyce's relationship to Jung, and more. Freudian Lacan spoke, a Joycean. To this day, Fritz Senn's kindness to me as a student seems Bloomian.