J. Joyce (G.B. Grassi)

STYLE

MAIN WORKS

LIFE

moved to Trieste, where he taught english

fell in love with Nora

after living in Paris, he came back in Ireland because his mother's illness 1903

born 1882 in Dublin

gradueted in modern language

influenced from catholic Church

Finnegans Wake

Ulysses 1922

Dubliners 1914

he remained poor, died in 1941

The Dead

Eveline

different point of view, without omniscent narrator

perspective of charachters

simple, naturalistic technique, realistic, without punctuation or grammar connection

stream of consciousness, transleted into words with interior monologue

THEME

difference between life and death (The Dead)

passionate love vs mature love (The Dead)

epiphany, sudden revelation, that doesn't change the situation

no great hero, because of the irreparable lost of classic values (Ulysses)

paralysis of Dublin (Dubliners)

every value transformed in economical matters

subjective perception of time