James Joyce 
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He was born in Dublin in 1882
Style
Zurich (1940-1941)
Zurich (1915-1920)
Paris (1920-1940)
The relationship with the Church
Trieste (1905-1915)
He began to teaching English
He married Nora in 1931,
they had two children.
Difficult years: with disappointment and financial problems.
Appeared 36 short poems "Chamber Music" in 1907
"Dubliners" (1914): collection of short stories all about Dublin and its life.
"A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916): semi-autobiographical novel
"Exiles" (1914): naturalistic drama
He received an anonymous donations that used to writing the novel "Ulysses"
The bookseller Sylvia Beach published "Ulysses" in 1922
His daughter Lucia suffered of mental illness
She was sent to a mental hospital
His final decade life was darkened by: his daughter's illness, his increasing blindness and his father's death
He continued to write
"Finnegans Wake" in 1939
He died from an intestinal operation at the age of 59 in January 1941.
He was buried in Zurich
His hostility was the revolt of the artist-heretic against the official doctrine.
He set all his work in Ireland and in the city of Dublin, when he went into voluntary exile at the age of 22.
He believed in the impersonality of the artist (T.S.Eliot) because he was influenced by the French Symbolists.
Artist's task was to render life objectively. The artist led to isolation an detachment from society.
He gave a realistic portrait of the life of ordinary people
Joyce used different points of view and narrative techniques.
Language: succession of words without punctuation or grammatical connections into infinite puns.
Subjective perception of time
His writes helped a little his financial difficulties