JAMES JOYCE
•born in Dublin, 1882"
•educated by the jesuit and studied modern languages"
•as he considered himself as a european citizen rather than an irishman ->
attended medical school in Paris "
•but had to come back in Ireland due to his mother’s illness"
•he met and fell in love with Nora Barnacle, married her and have 2 children"
•1914, Dubliners: completed and published"
•1916, A portrait of the artist as a young man (semi-autobiographical novel):
published"
•1918, Ulysses: published in series in a newspaper"
•stopped after the publication of the first 2 chapter beacuse it was
considered obscene"
•tried to published it in USA: Ezra Pound paid for the trial but was again
not published"
•1922, moved to Paris and a bookseller agreed to pubished it"
•1946, published in England"
•1941, died (following an intestinal operation)"
FEATURE OF JOYCE’S WORKS
•the setting is Ireland (especially Dublin)"
•he rebelled against Catholic Church"
•importance given to the INNER WORLD of the character -> TIME: precived
as SUBJECTIVE"
•used different point of view (story told by the character’s perspective)"
•different linguistic registers: language suits the age/role"
•aim: present the society in a objective way = isolation from the society to
give the reader a true image of it"
DUBLINERS
•consists of 15 short stories divided into 4 groups: "
childhood-adolescence-mature life-public life"
•(as a modernist) hostile to city life -> Dublin was a place where true fellings
do not exist, people are cruel and selfish and spiritually weak (unable to
escape)"
