CMJOYCIRENSFW The Writersinger

From Chamber Music to Finnegans Wake through the Sirens’ episode in Ulysses, we have the revelation of aman who cannot really be a writer without being a singer. Joyce is a mixture of Henrik lbsen and Richard Wagner. At the end, he identifies himself to the tenor Sullivan considered by him better than any genius in literature, painting, or sculpture and defines his last book as ‘pure music’. The works of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Richard Wagner (1813- 1883), and Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) made a special mark on the life and work of James Joyce.…