ABSTRACT
In Work in Progress, Joyce takes us into, one by one, the questions which concern language itself. We already know through the reading of Ulysses that for James Joyce language was a living element of his work; I mean that he did not consider the words, syntax, or style as admitted facts. In his new work he definitely breaks the balance of the edifice, and, after the rupture, decides to remount to the sources. Throughout his life, James Joyce has listened with attention, with complaisance to those he considers the true creators of language, the people, and he has followed with a patience which characterizes his ‘genius’ the steps of the verbal instinct.
