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Samuel Beckett’s Wartime Years: A Review of Jo Baker’s A Country Road, A Tree

Samuel Beckett’s Wartime Years: A Review of Jo Baker’s A Country Road, A Tree

by | Dec 19, 2017 | Articles, Books, Ireland, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, World War 2

Jo Baker’s A Country Road, A Tree (2016) is an exciting and moving novel detailing Samuel Beckett’s experiences in occupied France during World War Two. Though it is a fictionalized account, Baker did extensive research before writing the book, and the final product is a strange and beautiful mixture of historical events and imagined or inferred encounters.

Twin Peaks and Finnegans Wake: The Language of Art and Reality

Twin Peaks and Finnegans Wake: The Language of Art and Reality

by | Sep 19, 2017 | Articles, TV/Film

Last year, I wrote about Joyce and the award-winning filmmaker Richard Linklater, who created films like Boyhood (2014) and Before Sunrise (1995). These days, I still find myself drawing comparisons between contemporary art and the work of James Joyce: most recently, David Lynch’s revival of his classic television show, entitled Twin Peaks: The Return (2017).

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