James Joyce and the making of Ulysses and other writings

Frank Budgen's "James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses", first published in 1934, is the only first-hand account we have of the growth of Joyce's great work. The record of the painter's friendship with Joyce in Zuerich in 1918-19, when Ulysses was being written, it is also an acute critical commentary on the novel itself. Long unavailable in its original form, this invaluable book is now reissued together with three of Budgen's essays: "James Joyce's Chapters of Going Forth by day' (1939-41), on Finnegans Wake, a deeply felt obituary of the writer; and 'Further Recolections of James Joyce' (1955)