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JAMES JOICE 1882-1941 (LIFE (PARIS 1920-1940 (ULYSSES (the American Sylvia…
JAMES JOICE 1882-1941
LIFE
ZURICH 1915-1920
He moved with his family for political reasons, althought the previous publications alleviated his financial difficulties. And he wrote Ulysses, and bublished it serial form in The Little Reviw only from to 18 to 20, for obscenity
PARIS 1920-1940
It was a period of success, but the final decade of life was darkened by his daughter's mental illness, his increasing blindness and his father's death. He published a Finnegans Wake in 1939 an immediate success but difficult to learn for the variety of puns and new words
ULYSSES
the American Sylvia Beach agreed to publish Ulysses in 1922. This Novel drew both praise and sharp criticism, it is considered a work of a Genius (T.S. Eliot)
TRIESTE 1905-1915
Joyce began teching English, the years in Trieste were difficut, with disappointment and financial problems for elements deemed obscene in his prose. The first book was a collection of 36 short poems Chamber Music (1907) and Dubliners (1914) a collection of short stories all about Dublin and its life, completed in 1905 but published later.
ZURICH 1940-41
France was occupied by the Germans, Joyce returned with his family to Zurich, like in the WWI, he died at the age of 59 in January 1941, and he was buried in Zurich
DUBLIN 1882-1904
He was born in Dublin in 1882, he bagan to think of himself as European rather an Irishman, in contrast with the other contemporanery like W.B. Yeats who was trying to rediscover the Irish Celtin identity to create a national identity, in 1904 he met his future long time partner Nora Barnacle, whom he eventually married and with whom he had two children Giorgio and Lucia.
DUBINERS
The Dublin rappresented is not fixed and static, it overwhelms the reader. It consist in 15 stories set in the same city but each story has a singular location. Dubliners are described as afficted people
structure and style
The stories present human situation and they are arranged in 4 groups: Childhood, Adolescence, Mature life, Public life.
technique and themes
naturalistic, coincise, detailed description, naturalism combined with symbolysm
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THE DEAD Gabriel Conroy, an embodiment of Joyce himself, and Gretta his wife.
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