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Any comparative study of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce is constrained at the outset to acknowledge the mutual antipathy and implicit sense of rivalry between the two writers. Even before Lawrence borrowed a copy of the 'wildly expensive' Shakespeare and Company edition of Ulysses from an acquaintance of his American publisher Thomas Seltzer, in autumn 1922, he suspected Joyce of being 'a trickster'. 1 On returning it to its owner on 14 November, he apologised for his failure to appreciate the novel's experimental qualities: I am sorry, but I am one of the people who can't read Ulysses. Only bits. But I am glad I have seen the book, since in Europe they usually mention us together -James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence -and I feel I ought to know in what company I creep to immortality. I guess Joyce would look as much askance on me as I on him. We make a choice of Paola and Francesca floating down the winds of hell. 2To Seltzer himself, Lawrence was less guarded. He declared that the book 'wearied' him: Joyce was, he said, 'so like a schoolmaster with dirt and stuff in his head: sometimes good, though: but too mental'. He is reported to have referred to Molly Bloom's soliloquy as 'the dir

Author

Andrew Harrison

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN