In 1916, in a remote cottage on the west coast of Ireland, an unlikely collection of fugitives gathers. Ludwig Wittgenstein has run away from Cambridge and English insularity. His traveling companion, Nikolai Bakhtin (brother of the Marxist aesthetician), has been through the gamut of revolutionary sects and is now devoting himself to gluttony. Into their retreat stumble James Connolly, now on the run from the British government, and Leopold Bloom, fleeing Ulysses and his broken marriage. Being men of ideas, they begin to talk. And then, being men of principles, they begin to argue ...
- ISBN10 0860911802
- ISBN13 9780860911807
- Publish Date 1 August 1987 (first published 1 January 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 April 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Verso Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English