Paris, 1940. James Joyce is about to be expelled by the Nazis to Zurich, where he’ll die the following year. During the last months of his life, the Irish author wins a pupil – a fledgling Brazilian writer and unconditional admirer of his works.
The daily coexistence with the author of “Ulysses”– whom he calls “Master” and whose words guide (or taunt, or puzzle) him – will underline the learning path of the narrator, who recounts his attempts to get his own work published amidst reflections deriving from his readings of Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and Thomas Mann, among other luminaries of world literature.
“To epiphanize” dissects the expectations and misgivings which take hold of those who devote themselves to the lonely task of literary creation. The story of this passionate reader who aims to become a writer is the center of a narrative which explores, with both irony and tenderness, the myths involving the image of the artist who faces the constant challenge of the blank page in a relentless exercise of writing and rewriting in search of the sublime feeling of accomplishment.
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