This text presents a paperback edition of Arthur Power"s account of his friendship with James Joyce during the 1920s. Power, a young Irishman working as an art critic in Paris, first met Joyce in a Montparnasse dancehall, and the two men maintained a somewhat prickly friendship for several years. Power re-creates his conversations with the master, on a range of topics, literary and otherwise. We read of Joyce"s thoughts on writers past and present - Synge, Ibsen, Mangan, Hardy, Pushkin, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gide, Proust, Stendhal, T.S. Eliot, Browning, Tennyson and Shakespeare. Joyce also speaks of the looming might of America, of religion and of his own work.