https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KDYM542

Ellen Carol Jones: 'Joysis Crisis compellingly documents how Joyce’s revolution of the word—the “impossible philosophy” of a creativity that is negative and yet also “porous to transcendence”—“wrestles with reality itself,” resulting in truth-telling about the divine and the human. In judicious, enlightening readings spanning Dubliners to Finnegans Wake, Joseph S. O’Leary argues that Joyce’s texts stage a crisis that is both binding and freeing: “an event in writing and language, but also a religious event, a sexual event, and a collective crisis of his city and nation, or of European civilization.” Joyce seeks through his art to grasp the ungraspable world, “a micro and a macrocosm ineluctably constructed upon the incertitude of the void,” to reveal the real, even if that real is “unmasterable by historical vision or philosophical reason, or even language itself.” His art is a labor of transformation and a labor of redemption, sounding the depths of existence, revealing the spectrum of suffering humanity, transmuting that suffering through agonistic yet redemptive writing, and translating historical material into something rich and strange: a visionary aesthetic labor that is “a parable of the eschatological transformation that religions yearn for.”'

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[John Wijngaards]

Hi Joseph,
I trust you are doing alright in spite of all the Covid-19 restrictions . . .

I published a new book: ‘Ten Commandments of Church Reform. Memoirs of a Catholic Priest’. Read more information here: https://www.wijngaardsinstitute.org/wijngaards-memoir/ As you will see, this is not really an academic book, but my life story in which I document antiquated ‘doctrines’ and practices needing reform that I came across.

I presume you are quite busy – but would it be possible for you to review the book in some newspaper/magazine/network you have access to? I am thinking of you because I know that you too are concerned about such abuses and with your international experience you can better assess my own observations in other continents . . .

If you are willing to take this on, I can ask the publisher to send you a review copy of the book. In that case, to which postal address should it be despatched?

With all best wishes for life and ministry,
John

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