Editing and the Institution John O’Brien and Dalkey Archive Press

When James Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus famously proclaims, “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake,” he does so in the midst of a literary work (Ulysses) whose historical and geographic specificity is designed to bring Dublin to life.¹ However, Stephen does not denounce history in Dublin...

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Published inThe Editor Function p. 63
Main Author Foley, Abram
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Minnesota Press 31.08.2021
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Summary:When James Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus famously proclaims, “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake,” he does so in the midst of a literary work (Ulysses) whose historical and geographic specificity is designed to bring Dublin to life.¹ However, Stephen does not denounce history in Dublin proper. He speaks the line while sitting uneasily in an educational institution in Dalkey, a town just south of Dublin. That space is the eponymous one of Flann O’Brien’s The Dalkey Archive (1964).² More than mere coincidence, O’Brien responds to Stephen’s nightmare-inducing Dalkey by making the same town a setting for
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