The Joycean Monologue - George C. Sandulescu All novelists—except one—write stories. Almost everybody agrees that, in the absence of incidents that happen to a hero, and whose order creates suspense, we can hardly talk about novels. The one exception to this rule was, of course, James Joyce. He short-circuited both story and language. He used, instead, a complex mysterious tool, which wrote directly in our minds, our bodies, and our hearts. All his characters were actually one, in the end: they were all Joyce himself. His incidents—story or no story—were, again, Joyce’s own. Everything Joyce ever wrote was part of the ONE book of his life, which began on Candlemas Day... George Sandulescu published The Joycean Monologue in 1979. It will soon be a hundred years since Ulysses was published. George Sandulescu’s criticism of Joyce is a plea to look for Joyce’s secret in his novel. The Joycean Monologue refuses to follow the remark Joyce allegedly made to one of his trans
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