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JAMES JOYCE, Difficult, "intellectual" literature, Obsessed with…
JAMES JOYCE
Life
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Great intellectual, huge culture
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Moves to Trieste, where he becomes friends with Italo Svevo :red_flag:
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Themes
Focus on psychology
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External events are not important, plots are uneventful
External events only matter for the effect they have on the characters' psyche (emotions, feelings, memories, etc)
Paralysis
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People are "stuck" in the present, prisoners of their past and cannot find the strength to change and to move on with their lives
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Works
Dubliners
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Each character in the stories presents Dublin as seen through their own eyes, from their own perspective (reality is subjective)
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Ulysses
The title is ironic: Joyce's Ulysses tells an ordinary day of an ordinary man in Dublin (see contrast with Homer's Ulysses' adventures, heroic deeds, suspence, complex plot)
Hundreds of pages describe one ordinary day of one ordinary man: how is it possible? on the page we find absolutely everything that goes on in the character's mind (time is expanded)
Difficult, "intellectual" literature
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