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James Joyce (eveline (stay/escape, stillness, dust, eveline's mediocre…
James Joyce
eveline
stay/escape, stillness, dust
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eveline's epiphany, the sound of a street organ and the promise made to her mother
the dead
gabriel and gretta, michael furey was gretta's lover
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he was a modernist writer, in fact he used techniques like epiphany, the objective correlative and the stream of consciousness
the word epiphany means revelation of the truth, joyce presents us everyday moments as revelations
the objective correlative is a sequence of events, images, or a setting, used to express a certain emotion and evoke it in the reader
he was born in dublin in 1882, he studied languages at the university
when the director of the berlitz institute of trieste offered him a teaching position, he moved to trieste, where he worked on his first work, dubliners, and became friend with the italian writer italo svevo
he lived in zurich, where he wrote his masterpiece, ulysses, but he also lived in paris, he died in 1941
dubliners was published in 1914, it is a collection of 15 short stories that revolve around the lives of typical inhabitants of the city of dublin
all the characters have a desire, but they surrender because they don't have the will to transform the desire into action, they are pasarysed, spiritually dead
the only way to escape from the paralysis is through epiphany, a revelation of the characters' condition of paralysis that leads to awareness
he had a complex relationship with ireland, he both loved and hated it, ireland was a country dominated by stagnation, but was also his surce of inspiration
his masterpiece, ulysses, was published in 1922