Upon "riverrun"
Upon ‘riverrun’

Summary/Abstract: "Although the title of this conference offers a choice between ’a leap’ and ’a standstill’ for ’the genre of the novel in the contemporary world literature’, I decided to opt for ’riverrun’, this fascinating opening of James Joyce that opens and closes his great experiment, to quote Nabokov, “a tragic failure and a frightful bore” (Nabokov 1973: 151) which, incidentally, is also tragically and systematically misspelt in the Estonian press as Finnegan’ [apostrophe]s Wake. Joyce’s novels are protean, changing quickly and easily, like rivers that never stand still, and hardly ever leap, except in waterfalls, perhaps."[...]

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