Jonty Claypole
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9,840 appearances
30 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Jonty Claypole’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No, she's awesome.
And she's just dealing.
And so I think the reality is one just never knows what goes on in a marriage and these relationships.
I do love the fact that Nora has very little interest or seems to have very little interest in his writing and his self-regard for himself as an author.
So, Sophie, as we've said, he's he's through this period.
His influences are rapidly changing, even as he's writing the book.
And there is to me, there's a quality about this.
It feels like work in progress.
He's working through ideas and he already knows halfway through writing it.
that it's going to be the prelude to Ulysses.
He hits upon the idea that Dubliners leads to Portrait of the Artist leads to Ulysses.
And so towards the end of the book, towards the end of Portrait of the Artist,
he's really laying out a lot of the ideas that he's going to pick up on for Ulysses.
And Ulysses itself picks up shortly after the action of Portrait of the Artist ends.
But there was a part in the final section of the book, which is where Stephen Dedalus is formulating his ideas about literature, his ideas about what he wants his contribution to be as a writer.
And there's a passage that
where he hits upon the idea that becomes central to Ulysses and is the part of Ulysses that is so striking to T.S.
Eliot and Ezra Pound that we've talked about in recent weeks.
The way that James Joyce in Ulysses is going to use a literary tradition, which is Homer's Odyssey, and
and use it as a vehicle with which to play with all these different influences and all these different things he's trying to do.
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