Contemporary Literature Press is now publishing Volume 101 in its series of Joyce Lexicography. C. George Sandulescu — Director of Princess Grace Library — organized in May 1985 "The First International Seminar of the Princess Grace Irish Library", which took place in Monaco, on an invitational basis, and which he entitled A Finnegans Wake Approach to Ulysses (A Scrutiny of the 1984 Edition).

The conference was almost immediately followed by the publication of the volume Assessing the 1984 Ulysses, issued by the London Publisher of the Library, and edited by C. George Sandulescu and Clive Hart.

The book we are publishing now includes excerpts from the volume in question, as well as excerpts from the big debate that preceded and followed the publication of Hans Walter Gabler's 1984 Ulysses.

Extolling Hans Walter Gabler's major exegetic achievements, one must underline that another great merit of his edition is the stabilization of line numbering, which greatly facilitated research into Ulysses.

By publishing Text Exegesis. Excerpts from Assessing the 1984 Ulysses (1986), edited by C.G. Sandulescu and C. Hart, Contemporary Literature Press means to bridge the research of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. The idea was present in the very title given by Sandulescu to the Seminar: A Finnegans Wake Approach to Ulysses. It was also taken up by Anthony Burgess in his own major contribution.

24 March 2014

C. George Sandulescu & Lidia Vianu