Scarica James Joyce: The Irish Expat Novelist and Poet Who Found Objectivity in Self-Exile e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! James Joyce James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet and was born in Dublin in 1882 into a middle-class of Catholic family. Joyce committed himself to a life of self-imposed exile because he considered Ireland an obstacle for his artistic development. In Trieste finished two important works: Dubliners (1914) and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Then in Zurigo, started working on Ulysses that was finally published in 1922, in Paris. In the intellectual and artistic milieu of Paris Joyce writing his last novel Finnegans Wake at which worked from 1923 and come out in 1939. He died in France in 1941. His self-imposed exile was necessary to give him the objectivity he needed to write about Ireland with the emotional and intellectual detachment. Joyce’s novels show a shift from the particular to the universal. His movement was from the lyrical style to the epic style. Dubliners Is a collection of fifteen short stories, in each of which the failure of self-realization of an inhabitant of Dublin. The first fourteen had been written by 1905. The last and longest story, The Dead was finished in 1907 and came out in 1914. The intention of the poet is to write the moral story of his country and he choose Dublin because it is the center of the will’s paralysis, courage and self knowledge and this sense of paralysis is presented in four stages: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The style of Dubliners is complex but realistic to recreating characters, places, streets of contemporary Dublin. Joyce himself also coined the term “epiphany” to indicate the moment when a simple object or fact, suddenly flash out with meaning and make a person realise his/her condition. The dead Is the climax to all the other stories, here the narrator’s detached objectivity and gives place to lyrical intensity, the central character, Gabriel, is the best representative of all failed Dubliners and he is a dramatic figure because he knows that he has failed. The story The Dead begins with the Christmas party that the elderly Morkan sisters organize each year and to which they invite friends and relatives. This gives Joyce the occasion to show a wide range of characters, Catholics, and Protestants, and to have them debate crucial arguments, especially Irish politics in relation to Britain and the need for political commitment. The central character is Gabriel Conroy, nephew to the Morkan sisters, an intelligent and successful journalist, who has, however, an unfulfilled personality: he would like to take sides as regards Ireland's problems, to travel eastward, towards Europe (like Joyce himself), and also to write all he feels he could write, but he prefers not to expose himself and to continue his usual life. Late at night, when the party is over, Gabriel and his wife Gretta, a quietly beautiful woman, go back to their hotel in Dublin. Eveline The protagonist of this short story is Eveline, a nineteen-year-old girl, who, at the beginning of the story, looks out of the window and remembers her childhood. She is terrifying by his father who abuses her, and she feels frustrated because of her modest job as, yet, she has planned to go with her boyfriend Frank to Buenos Aires but before leaving, she is in doubt because she don’t know if she has to choose past over her future. However she remember the promise she had don at her mother before she died to take care of the family and decides not to living.
