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Available now in Paperback – The Paris Residences of James Joyce

2020 Paris book ...

MARTINA NICOLLS

Jan 26

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My 2020 book The Paris Residences of James Joyce has been released as a paperbook. The hardcover, paperback, and ebook are available from my publisher, Cambridge Scholars Publishing in the UK, and a limited selection of Amazon websites.

The Paris Residences of James Joyce is about the apartments and hotels where Irish author James Joyce lived during his nineteen years in Paris, from 1920 to 1939. James Joyce (1882–1941), author of Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses(1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939) never owned his own apartment, but moved in and out of residences in the heart of Paris.

The Paris Residences of James Joyce, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, includes photographs of each of his homes, with an historical account of his life and the heady times of Paris, where intellectuals from around the world gathered in a cultural collection of cameraderie and competition.

Book Reviews:

“James Joyce, like many Irish people before him and after him, found in Paris the refuge they needed from the oppressive and repressive social and political atmosphere of Dublin. […] Frequently short of money, the Joyce family moved between hotels, apartments, and the guest rooms of friends. Martina Nicolls has now produced a handy topographical guide to no less than twenty-three Joyce addresses, all photographed by herself, and identified with Google maps. […]For although all readers will know about Hemingway, and probably most readers will know about Sylvia Beach, as with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake there is always something new to be learned, for the book notices a great many bit-part players, all of whom are listed in an appendix […] Written in jaunty prose, with many discursions, this book, hard-covered and modestly sized, should be profitably read between walks, perhaps in the Café Flore or the Jardin du Luxembourg (the Luxembourg Garden), as a prelude to deeper immersion in James Joyce, or Paris, or both.”

David Charles Rose
Author, Oscar Wilde's Elegant Republic: Transformation, Dislocation and Fantasy in fin-de-siècle Paris.

“Nicolls is to be congratulated on her energetic research in connection with each of the residences. The book includes a timeline showing the periods the family stayed at each address. Another table lists Joyce’s eye examinations and operations. […] If, like me, you enjoy viewing Paris through the places associated with James Joyce, Nicolls’s book is one to bring with you.”

Conor Fennell
Independent Scholar; James Joyce Quarterly, 59.3, 2022, and Author, A Little Circle of Kindred Minds: Joyce in Paris.