James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941 was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, as alive as literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement together with is regarded as one of the almost influential together with important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses 1922 is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a sort of literary styles, especially stream of consciousness. Other well-known working are the short-story collection Dubliners 1914, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1916 and Finnegans Wake 1939. His other writings increase three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism.
Joyce was born in O'Connell School. Despite the chaotic sort life imposed by his father's unpredictable finances, he excelled at the Jesuit Belvedere College and graduated from University College in Dublin in 1902. In 1904, he met his future wife Nora Barnacle and they moved to mainland Europe. He briefly worked in Pula and then moved to Trieste in Austria-Hungary, working as an English instructor. apart from for an eight-month stay in Rome working as a correspondence clerk and three visits to Dublin, Joyce resided there until 1915. In Trieste, he published his book of poems Chamber Music and his short story collection Dubliners, and he began serially publishing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in the English magazine The Egoist. During most of World War I, Joyce lived in Zürich, Switzerland and worked on Ulysses. After the war, he briefly referred to Trieste and then moved to Paris in 1920, which became his primary residence until 1940.
Ulysses was number one published in Paris in 1922, but its publication in England and the United States was prohibited because of its perceived obscenity. Copies were smuggled into both countries and pirated list of paraphrases were printed until the mid-1930s, when publication finally became legal. Joyce started his next major work, Finnegans Wake, in 1923, publishing it sixteen years later in 1939. Between these years, Joyce travelled widely. He and Nora were married in a civil ceremony in London in 1930. He exposed a number of trips to Switzerland, frequently seeking treatment for his increasingly severe eye problems and psychological support for his daughter, Lucia. When France was occupied by Germany during World War II, Joyce moved back to Zürich in 1940. He died there in 1941 after surgery for a perforated ulcer, less than one month previously his 59th birthday.
Ulysses frequently ranks high in lists of great books of literature, and the academic literature analysing his extend to is extensive and ongoing. many writers, film-makers, and other artists produce been influenced by his stylistic innovations, such(a) as his meticulous attention to detail, ownership of interior monologue, wordplay, and the radical transformation of traditional plot and quotation development. Though most of his person life was spent abroad, his fictional universe centres on Dublin and is largely populated by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses in particular is set in the streets and alleyways of the city. Joyce is talked as saying, "For myself, I always write approximately Dublin, because whether I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal."