Edwin Berry Burgum

A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake. By Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson. Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.50. Those who have felt the urge to read "Finnegans Wake," but have run away from the first encounter like boys after wild h [...]

For some months "The Human Comedy" was on the best seller lists for books and double checked by the movie reviewers. William Saroyan has reached the top of the ladder scarcely ten years after his first steps in learning to please the public [...]

For James Joyce one accepts the prevailing formula: he found life a chaotic whirlpool of contradictions, without pattern or direction. In order to achieve pattern, he retreated further and further into a subjective world which he could control. But t [...]