Writer Samuel Beckett (1906–89) is known for depicting a world of abject misery, failure, and absurdity in his many plays, novels, short stories, and poetry. Yet the despair in his work is neve
James Joyce has traditionally been viewed as the paradigm of international modernism in literature, supremely in his two great masterpieces, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In this radical reappraisal of
