James Joyce
Born 2 February 1882 · Died 13 January 1941
From Rathgar, Ireland · Nationality: France, United Kingdom, Ireland · Writes fiction and nonfiction
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century.
Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilised. Other well-known works 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 include three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism and his published letters.
Quotes
“I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.”
Chapter IV “She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind.”
Dubliners “For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if 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.”
p. 505 “But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”
Dubliners “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
Ulysses, Chapter 2
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Books by James Joyce in order
Books by James Joyce in the order they were published, from Dubliners (1914) to A First-draft Version of Finnegans Wake (1928).
- 1Dubliners
Dubliners1914 - 2Ulysses
Ulysses1914 - 3A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man1916 - 4Exiles
Exiles1918 - 5A First-draft Version of Finnegans Wake
A First-draft Version of Finnegans Wake1928 - 6Eveline
Eveline - 7Giacomo Joyce
Giacomo Joyce - 8The Cat and the Devil
The Cat and the Devil - 9The Critical Writings of James Joyce
The Critical Writings of James Joyce - 10The Dead
The Dead - 11The Essential James Joyce
The Essential James Joyce