“Exiles” – Initial Reception

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The Sun

October 13, 1918

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“JAMES JOYCE’S Exiles is an absorbing analysis of four human souls.”

Anonymous

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“B. W. Huebseh is about to put forth a three act play by Janes Joyce, whose Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man got praise from H. G. Wells, but eluded the intellects of others for a whole afternoon. The play is called Exiles.” — The Sun (March 3, 1918)

“A play in three acts.” — The Sun (June 30, 1918) and San Francisco Chronicle (July 13, 1918)

The Liberator

October 1918

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“THIS Irishman, Joyce, has a rich flavor. With relish I have dined off his stories, “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” “Dubliners” and “Ulysses,” the latter now appearing serially in The Little Review, but his play “Exiles” is a dish of another essence.”

P. R.

The New Statesman

September 21, 1918

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“EXILES is a remarkable play.”

Charles Otto Desmond MacCarthy

The American Review Of Reviews

September 1918

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“In “Exiles,” by James Joyce, author of “Dubliners,” we have his best work so far, sustained by dramatic form around the thesis that the present order fails to sustain man’s immortal spirit.”

Anonymous

San Francisco Chronicle

August 18, 1918

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“The play focuses, skillfully and compactly, the drama of four lives into the events of a day and a night.”

Anonymous

The Sunday Oregonian

August 11, 1918

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“Exiles, by James Joyce, $1, an astonishing, bold, aesthetic play on the relation and an attempted substitute to for it—all handled with cleverness ( B. 1. Huebsch, N. Y.).”

Anonymous

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