Adventures in the Joyce Trade

Abstract

So the story goes in its various versions: In November 1966, during a term as a Fulbright Professor in Trieste, the absurdly young editor of the James Joyce Quarterly paid a visit to his European editor of JJQ and co-editor of the Wake Newslitter, Fritz Senn, in Zürich. During the visit we conceived the idea of having a Joyce meeting in Dublin that coming summer to bring European and American Joyce scholars together and to advance an interchange of ideas. The stories of how the Symposia began some thirty years ago have been recorded by others, especially Murray Beja and Joe Kelly, and what I have read is essentially accurate. Kelly in Our Joyce makes better use of my notes and correspondence than I ever will: