Bruce Arnold (1) (1936–)

An engrossing account of the making of the 1984 Gabler edition of Joyce’s Ulysses—presented at the time as the ‘corrected’ version—and the subsequent controversy among Joyce scholars when Gabler’s faulty editing process and the resulting errors were revealed by an eccentric, upstart Joycean and corroborated by a stash of letters in the archived papers of one of the principals. The first several chapters explaining just how Ulysses came into being (in fits and starts, serially and in scattered pieces, chopped, patched and rewritten, at times by Joyce himself) suggests that a definitive version of Joyce’s masterpiece does not exist. How about that?… (meer)