Following James Joyce’s Footsteps


Thursday, June 16, 2011
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12:00 AM

One of the things I love most about books is how they can transport you to places all over the planet (and even in other worlds). Cities not only exist in the real world — they exist in literature as well. As a novel’s characters walk through pages, our imaginations walk right along with them, following words as though they were streets.

James Joyce once said, “I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out

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