ABSTRACT
At the invitation of Professor Jean Wahl, this lecture was offered to the Collège Philosophique at Paris on May 10,1953-It appears in the Revue de métaphysique et de morale, LXI, 3-4 (July-December, 1936), with its title philosophically transposed to James Joyce: un individu dans le monde. I apologize for the French; I should have to apologize still more, if I repeated in English so much that I previously tried to set forth. The French translation of my book on Joyce made me painfully conscious of many practical difficulties, but also eager to see the gap bridged from the other side, as it were. I hoped this attempt would make up, in closeness to its subject-matter, for what it might lack in mastery of its medium. At all events, as a classroom exercise in the idea of world literature, it may illustrate some of the problems it seeks to formulate.
