Photograph

by James Joyce, Josef Breitenbach

$4,800 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

POWERFUL IMAGE OF JAMES JOYCE BY SURREALISTIC PHOTOGRAPHER JOSEF BREITENBACH. A remarkable set of circumstances had to come together to this photograph of James Joyce by German born photographer Josef Breitenbach to first exist, and then to survive. Throughout the summer of 1937, as he experienced increasingly painful flashes in his right eye, Joyce pored over early proofs of Finnegan’s Wake, then known only as “Work in

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