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James Joyce’s notebooks, in particular the 14,000 pages related to Finnegans Wake, are both a curiosity, a colourful episode in the history of the notebook genre, and an exemplary case that requires us to rethink the notion of the preparatory notebook and what it presupposes. I would like to preface my discussion of these notebooks with two rather anecdotal observations.1
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Ferrer, D. (1996). Joyce’s Notebooks: Publicizing the Private Sphere of Writing. In: Willison, I., Gould, W., Chernaik, W. (eds) Modernist Writers and the Marketplace. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24551-2_9
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