“That James Joyce is indeed a black Irishman, wreaking a vengeance, even wilder than the I.R.A.’s, on the English language from within, invading the territory of its sanitary ego-presumptions with a flood of impure, dark languages flowing from the damned up sources of collective speech, savagely drowning the ego of the traditional speaker and depositing the property of words in everybody, in the total human community of those who speak and have spoken and shall speak.”
— Carlos Fuentes
What’s the bibliographic information on this quote?
Most of this stuff came from Richard Ellmann’s incomparable and definitive biography of Joyce. I can’t swear that this quote came from Ellmann’s book – but you could check there first.