In James Joyce and the Matter of Paris (Cambridge, 2019), Catherine Flynn (Department of English, UC Berkeley) explores the ways in which Joyce's imaginative consciousness was shaped by the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity. Joyce’s trip to the French metropole at the age of 20 sparked a question that motivated his work for the rest of his life: what, given the force of modern capitalism, is art? 

Flynn is joined by Michael Lucey (Comparative Literature and French Departments).

Read the transcript https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/2020-05/Catherine%20Flynn%2C%20Podcast%2C%202020.pdf.