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...And finally Anselm Kiefer’s latest exhibition, Finnegans Wake, is the German artist’s response to James Joyce’s novel of the same title....
...Joyce described it as “Europiccola” – all of Europe in one small package....
...Das is just one of a growing number of writers who have become recent exiles from countries including Turkey, Hungary, Syria, China, Somalia and Ukraine....
...To mark the centenary of Ulysses I’ve taken a renewed run at Joyce’s masterpiece via Jim Norton’s entertaining reading in which he brings the book’s baffling, polyphonic charm to life....
...Dickens wrote some spectacular Christmas feasts — “there never was such a goose” — but I think James Joyce had the edge, with his description of the Christmas table in “The Dead”: “A fat brown goose lay...
...The Nobel citation acclaimed him for making Istanbul one of the great literary cities, on a level with Proust’s Paris or Joyce’s Dublin....
...And once when a truffled turkey fell overboard at a boating picnic.”...
...The recent strength for oil was largely driven by worries that Turkey could cut crude exports from Kurdistan following an independence vote in the Iraqi region....
...Outside the ring, Joyce prefers a different type of canvas....
...James Joyce famously said of Ulysses that if Dublin were one day destroyed, it could be recreated from his book; many of Pamuk’s books could be recreated by walking the streets of Istanbul....
...But today it is the toffs that “eat with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls” as James Joyce characterised them, while those below the salt eat cheap steaks and turkey sizzlers and regard liver as...
...Istanbul is for Pamuk what Dublin was for Joyce....
...The Infinity of Lists: From Homer to James Joyce By Umberto Eco Quercus £35, 408 pages FT Bookshop price: £28 You know how you’re going to be feeling post-turkey, don’t you? Listless....
...Thanksgiving, for instance, could be an opportunity to discuss why we are not eating turkey....
...“I’ve seen people almost come to blows,” said Joyce. “One lady, when I told her we were sold out, she jumped out of her car screaming…” Joyce sighed. “People get upset.” This is understandable....
...There are equally entrants from across Europe, the US, Australia, China and Turkey....
...He is thought to have been in the UK for most of the time, although he has spent time on holiday in Turkey and Spain....
...There is a round of spiced beef accompanying a great ham and a magnificent goose at the Misses Morkan’s Christmas dance in James Joyce’s short story, The Dead....
...Turkey, for example, has proportionately fewer companies over-borrowed in forex. Russian risks would seem to be the most interesting....
...James Joyce’s Ulysses (Penguin), and Iain Sinclair’s Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report (Hamish Hamilton), two fat books I began on my last holiday and must finish....
...The most frequently traded local market instruments were Mexican local treasuries followed by local instruments in Brazil, South Africa, Poland and Turkey....
...Browning, James Joyce, John Betjeman, several feet of dictionaries, atlases, Greek-English lexicons, pictures by the late Greek artist and Leigh Fermor’s friend Nikos Ghika.In Leigh Fermor’s words, “Where...
...Ms Parla says few European writers can shock their societies today in the manner in which Joyce or Flaubert did. “Orhan Pamuk still has the power to shock his society,” she says....
...He points out that aside from Russia, much of emerging Europe, including Turkey and Hungary, is suffering from large current account deficits....
...Only one of the five Britons - firefighter Brian Joyce - has been to Iraq before....
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