Henry Miller’s James Joyce: A Painful Case Of Envy

by Sam Bluefarb (April 2012)

This essay was first published in the Spring 1999 issue of the James Joyce Quarterly. Permission was gracefully granted to New English Review by the Editors of the Quarterly and the University of Tulsa. Portions of the original text were revised and edited by the author, and some passages deleted, but the purpose and integrity of the original essay remain.

Sam Bluefarb and Dick Hawthorne
With Henry Miller
Big Sur, California
Summer, 1947

[1] Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (New York: Grove Press, 1961), v.

[9] [I]n 1903, Joyce left for Paris to study medicine, but he soon abandoned this after finding the lectures in French too difficult. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce

[11] Miller, The Cosmological Eye (Norfolk, Conn: New Directions, 1939), p. 231.

[14] William Shakespeare, Hamlet, The Riverside Shakespeare, ed. G. Blackmore Evans (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974)), 3.2.22 and Aristotle, The Poetics (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1920).

Sam Bluefarb is Prof. Emeritus, Los Angeles Harbor College.

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