james joyce sell out?

[prozak at anus.com]

>  + au contraire, joyce was among the happy few who, artistically, managed to   
>  come full circle without having to make compromise. as cioran put it in his 
>  cahiers --- "james joyce: the proudest man of the century. because he wanted 
>  the impossible and partly fulfilled this with the obsession of a crazy god. and 
>  because he never cared about the reader and didn't want to be readable at any 
>  price. reaching his peak in the dark" (e.m. cioran: cahiers 1957-1972. ffm 
>  2001: suhrkamp, p. 26, own translation). 

If it occurs at the price of philosophical contradiction, it's toast.

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