Уильям Йорк Тиндалл — об авторе

Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, for all their obsessive concern with pride and guilt, are genial books. Pain and all the trouble of the night, transmuted by understanding and acceptance, have become materials for art, distant now from self. Here again we must separate life from art. Reappearing in art, the horrors of life, have become elements in a joyous, impersonal structure. The dominant tone of …

However analogous to dream symbol, the literary symbol is not dream but art or an element in a work of art. Belonging as much to the external world as to the internal, the literary symbol, mediating between them, follows not only the demands of the unconscious but social and aesthetic necessity.

От Блейка к Йейтсу, от Данте к символистам, Элиоту и Джойсу, от Флобера к Конраду, от романтиков к …