Description
James Joyce's startlingly modern portrait of a marriage.
Back in Dublin after nine years abroad, Richard and Bertha have to confront two other people who love them, and ask themselves questions about guilt and responsibility. Will infidelity hold them together?
Exiles is based in part on Joyce's own relationship with Nora Barnacle. His only play, it was written in 1914 during his own self-imposed exile from Ireland, between A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses.
About the Author
James Joyce (1882-1941) is the author of Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Exiles (1918), Ulysses (published in Paris 1922), Finnegans Wake (1939) and many poems. He met Nora in Dublin in 1904 and the two of them lived in Pula and then Trieste until 1915, when the War forced them to move to Zurich, where, after a long spell in Paris, Joyce returned to die.
Reviews
'A neglected landmark of modern theatre that explores the byzantine complexities of marriage with the honesty of genius'
* Guardian *'Never for a second does it lose its grip'
* Independent *'Astonishing... a play that asks sharp, searching questions about the difficulty of emotional honesty and, above all, the sheer complexity of our sexual feelings'
* The Times *Book Information
ISBN 9781854599520
Author James Joyce
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Nick Hern Books
Publisher Nick Hern Books
Weight(grams) 138g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 9mm
