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O Kočkách A Kodani (2013)

by James Joyce(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Albatros

review 1: Interesting to note that in their later days Joyce and Eliot both gravitated toward cat-themed works for children. Feline-themed satires for family. I'm not a fan of either, but that this is too short to adapt into a musical is surely a few points in its favor. Who knows, maybe we'll discover something by Pound that'll confirm that he was a "cat that walk[ed] by himself" but will toss out the "unsafe for children" part.Casey Sorrow's illustrations are great.
review 2: "Alas! I cannot send you a Copenhagen cat because there are NO cats in Copenhagen." Originally a letter to Joyce's grandson, The Cats of Copenhagen was only recently discovered, and this marks its first publication. Short as it is, the decision to publish this little entertainment was a worthy on... moree. The Cats of C. is an intriguing glimpse of a playful and human Joyce that readers of his novels may not have seen but will immediately recognize. The dozen or so quirky, modern illustrations accompanying Joyce's lines do great job enlivening the comedy and filling out the book (which would otherwise have been too bare and overpriced, I'm afraid).I worry that some will want to look for and say profound things about this little work--how strong the prose, how tight and self-conscious the plot, this or that about the Swiftian mode--but that would be pretentious and miss the point. This letter to a child is not Ulysses; it is meant purely to delight, and it did.I am very grateful to Scribner for providing me with a complimentary copy. less

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