Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941) was an author and poet. One of the most well-known Irish authors, Joyce is largely remembered for his novel Ulysses.
Life[]
Born in the Rathgar suburb of Dublin in early February of 1882, Joyce's father was a politically active man. He was baptised as James Augustine Joyce in a church in Terenure suburb three days after his birth. He had family ties to the Irish political leader Daniel O'Connell (better known as The Liberator). When Joyce was five years old, his father was appointed a rate collector for the Dublin Corporation. This allowed his family to move to a "fashionable" small town in the Dublin vicinity called Bray.
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Writing style[]
Joyce is largely remembered for his experimental writing style - which is most notably shown in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
Joyce's writing style frequently examines the identity and culture of his homeland, alongside major figures and movements within Irish culture. The dead revolutionary Parnell is frequently mentioned within A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (which serves as an examination of Joyce's early life and how Ireland affected his personal growth and growth as an author).
Though Joyce is frequently described as a modernist, it is possible that he bridged the gap between modernism and postmodernism. This is most notable in Finnegans Wake.
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Notable works[]
Published during Joyce's life[]
- Chamber Music - a collection of poetry
- Dubliners - a collection of short stories set in Dublin
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - a novel which introduces Stephen Dedalus and serves as an examination of Stephen (and his own) early life
- Exiles - Joyce's only play
- Ulysses - a novel which examines a single day in the life of a Dubliner
- Pomes Penyeach - a collection of poetry
- Finnegans Wake - an extremely experimental novel set within a dream
Posthumous[]
- Stephen Hero - a fragment of a precursor of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- The Cat and the Devil - a collection of short stories
- Giacomo Joyce - a collection of poetry
- The Cats of Copenhagen - a collection of stort stories
- Finn's Hotel - a precursor to Finnegans Wake
See also[]
- Thomas Pynchon
- Italo Svevo
- T.S. Eliot
- Virginia Woolf
- Y.B. Yeats
- D.H. Lawrence
- Ezra Pound
Sources[]
- Wikipedia
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