Joysprick

1975 Harcourt edition

Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce is a work of literary criticism by Anthony Burgess. It was first published in 1973.

The book is aimed at helping readers new to Joyce to appreciate his genius, and is a particularly useful guide through the complexities of Finnegans Wake.

Burgess provided the following explanation of the book's title: "Any reader of Finnegans Wake will see that it is a fusion of Joycesprach, joystick, the prick that brings joy and the prick of conscience or agenbite of inwit."

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Burgess reveals in his autobiography (You've Had Your Time p. 243) that the Joysprick manuscript was stolen while he was living in Rome, and he had to write it out again from memory. "It was probably better the second time," he wrote.

Works by Anthony Burgess

Novels	The Long Day Wanes Time for a Tiger The Enemy in the Blanket Beds in the East The Right to an Answer The Doctor is Sick The Worm and the Ring Devil of a State One Hand Clapping A Clockwork Orange The Wanting Seed Honey for the Bears Inside Mr. Enderby The Eve of St. Venus Nothing Like the Sun A Vision of Battlements Tremor of Intent Enderby Outside M/F Napoleon Symphony The Clockwork Testament Beard's Roman Women Abba Abba 1985 Man of Nazareth Earthly Powers The End of the World News Enderby's Dark Lady The Kingdom of the Wicked The Pianoplayers Any Old Iron Mozart and the Wolf Gang A Dead Man in Deptford Byrne

Short story collections	The Devil's Mode

Poetry	Moses: A Narrative Revolutionary Sonnets

Essays	An Essay on Censorship Homage to Qwert Yuiop One Man's Chorus

Critical works	Shakespeare Joysprick Ninety-Nine Novels Language Made Plain A Mouthful of Air

Operettas	Blooms of Dublin

Symphonies	Sinfoni Melayu

Autobiography	Little Wilson and Big God You've Had Your Time

James Joyce

Works

Novels	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) Ulysses (1922) Finnegans Wake (1939)

Short stories	Dubliners (1914, written 1904–07) "The Sisters" "Eveline" "After the Race" "An Encounter" "Araby" "The Boarding House" "Counterparts" "Clay" "A Painful Case" "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" "A Mother" "Two Gallants" "A Little Cloud" "Grace" "The Dead"

Play	Exiles (1918)

Poetry	Chamber Music (1907) Pomes Penyeach (1927)

Posthumous publications	Stephen Hero (1944) Giacomo Joyce (1968) The Cats of Copenhagen (2012) Finn's Hotel (2013)

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