James Joyce: Proiect Realizat De: Olteanu Silvana

James Joyce
Proiect realizat de:

Olteanu Silvana
James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist,

noted for his experimental use of language
in such works as Ulysses (1922)
and Finnegans Wake (1939).
Joyce's technical innovations in the art of the novel include
an extensive use of interior monologue; he used a complex
network of symbolic parallels drawn from the mythology,
history, and literature, and created a unique language of
invented words, puns, and allusions.
James Joyce was born in

Dublin, on February 2, 1882, as
the son of John Stanislaus Joyce,
an impoverished gentleman,
who had failed in a distillery
business and tried all kinds of
professions, including politics
and tax collecting. Joyce's
mother, Mary Jane Murray, was
ten years younger than her
husband. She was an
accomplished pianist, whose life
was dominated by the Roman
Catholic Church. In spite of their
poverty, the family struggled to
maintain a solid middle-class
facade.
From the age of six Joyce, was educated by

Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College, at Clane, and
then at Belvedere College in Dublin (1893-97). In
1898 he entered the University College, Dublin.
Joyce's first publication was an essay on Ibsen's
play When We Dead Awaken. It appeared in the
Fortnightly Review in
1900.
At this time he also
began writing lyric
poems.
After graduation in 1902 the twenty-yearold Joyce went to Paris, where he worked as a
journalist, teacher and in other occupations
under difficult financial conditions. He spent a
year in France, returning when a telegram
arrived saying his mother was dying. Not long
after her death, Joyce was traveling again. He
left Dublin in 1904 with Nora Barnacle, a
chambermaid who he married in 1931.
Joyce published Dubliners in 1914, A Portrait of

the Artist as a Young Man in 1916, a play Exiles
in 1918 and Ulysses in 1922. In 1907 Joyce had
published a collection of poems,Chamber Music.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Portrait of the Artist really unleashed the massive power of Joyces
innovation and unconventionality upon the literary world. Notably, the
novel starts to make use of techniques that would make Joyce famous
and infamous with Ulysses, such as stream of consciousness narration,
interiority (a revealing view of the characters inner workings), and a frank
realism that shocked some readers of the time. The novel also introduces
us to Stephen Dedalus, who would later be featured prominently
in Ulysses. This book is definitely much loved and studied in its own right,
however.
Portrait of the Artist is Joyces reworking of the classic coming of age story
(the fancy German term is bildungsroman), and it mirrors the authors life
up to age 20, when he left Dublin for Paris. Its challenging attitude to
family, homeland, and the Catholic Church all gave the novel (and Joyce
himself) quite the reputation when it was published. Joyce treats youth
with a directness and honesty thats pretty remarkable. In short great
book then, great book now.
At the outset of the First World War, Joyce moved

with his family to Zrich. In Zrich Joyce started to
develop the early chapters of Ulysses, which was first
published in France because of censorship troubles in
the Great Britain and the United States, where the
book became legally available only in 1933. In March
1923 Joyce started in Paris his second major
work, Finnegans Wake, suffering at the same time
chronic eye troubles caused by glaucoma. The first
segment of the novel appeared in Ford Madox Ford's
transatlantic review in April 1924, as part of what Joyce
called Work in Progress. The final version was
published in 1939.
Finnegans Wake- They lived and

laughed and loved and left.
o Is a work of comic prose, which has a reputation as one of

the most difficult works of fiction in the English language.
The entire book is written in a largely idiosyncratic language,
consisting of a mixture of standard English lexical items
and neologistic multilingual puns and portmanteau words,
which many critics believe attempts to recreate the
experience of sleep and dreams.
For example, here is a quote from the book:
bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntu
onnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-nuk!
[A sound which represents the symbolic thunderclap
associated with the fall of Adam and Eve.]
Conclusion
Some critics considered the work a masterpiece,
though many readers found it incomprehensible.
After the fall of France in WWII,

Joyce returned to Zrich, where
he died on January 13, 1941,
still disappointed with the
reception of Finnegans Wake.

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James Joyce

Proiect realizat de:

James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist,

James Joyce was born in

From the age of six Joyce, was educated by

Joyce published Dubliners in 1914, A Portrait of

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

At the outset of the First World War, Joyce moved

Finnegans Wake- They lived and

o Is a work of comic prose, which has a reputation as one of

After the fall of France in WWII,

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