Irish Journalist and literary editor, Fintan O'Toole, draws our attention to a little character in James Joyce鈥檚 鈥楿lysses鈥� who has recently come to haunt him.
In this series of The Essay, five leading cultural voices choose a great work of art and talk about a small, under-appreciated aspect of the piece that carries great meaning for them.
For this edition, Irish Journalist and literary editor, Fintan O'Toole, draws our attention to a little character in James Joyce鈥檚 鈥楿lysses鈥� who has recently come to haunt him. It is a book he first read when he was 17, and one which teems with almost 200 other named characters. Fintan, however, missed the significance of one apparently minor character until now - a boy called Patsy Dignam who faces a fate that could have been that of his own father when he was growing up in their home city of Dublin.
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