"I would offer James Joyce as an example of an extremely interesting but enormously overrated writer who really had I very little influence on anybody because nobody can write like Joyce. Who would want to? Whereas Virginia Woolf, his exact contemporary of course, has been enormously influential, and underrated because she's not in the canon. She's in some people's canon, but she's not in the canon."
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Ursula Le Guin, in an 1994 interview in Conversations with Ursula Le Guin (2008)
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James Joyce
1882 – 1941
irischer Schriftsteller
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