Scarica James Joyce, Dubliners, Eveline e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JAMES JOYCE he was born in Dublin in 1882 in a middle catholic family. He was educated by the Jesuits and in 1889 he studied modern languages at the university of Dublin. He was always a rebel born among rebels and we can see that with his effort to rediscover the Irish Celtic identity. He was really interested in European culture, and he identifies himself as a European and not like a Irishman. 1905 he moved to Trieste and in 1931 he married Nora Barnacle and they had two children. These years were difficult for him, he had financial problems for the obscene elements in his works. Here he became friend of Italo Svevo and wrote his first work Chamber Music (which consist in 36 shorts poems) Dubliners which was published in 1914 (his masterpiece) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man that is a semi-autobiographical and his naturalistic drama Exiles. 1915 he moved to Zurich, where his financial difficulties were alleviated thanks anonymous donations which enabled him to continue writing the novel Ulysses which was published in serial form in The Little Review in 1918 and was published entire in 1920, when he moved to Paris. He received a lot of critics, but Ulysses for a lot of authors was a word of a genius. This period of success was linked also characterised by his daughter mental illness. She was sent in a mental hospital, she died. In 1940 when France was occupied by Germans his moved with his family to Zurich and he followed an intestinal operation. He died at 59 years old. In his works he wrote often about Ireland, in particularly Dublin and he gave a realistic portrait of the life of ordinary people doing ordinary things and living ordinary lives, he wrote also about their mentality and emotions, and we can see his technique of writing in Dubliners DUBLINERS Dubliners consists in 15 short stories that lead to a moral, social and spiritual revelation. In this work he talks about his childhood, adolescence, mature life and public life in Dublin, and he shows his hostility to city life, finding that it degraded its citizens. The facts are narrated by different point of view. Dublin is a place where doesn’t exist true feelings and compassion for others. In effect Dublin is also the centre of his paralysis. The paralysis isn’t something only physical (linked by external forces) or moral (linked to religion, politics and culture) , it’s the impossibility to escape and the fault is often of the Church. The Dubliners even if they want to escape, they are unable because they are spiritually weak. A example is Eveline. The epilogue of this work that summarise the themes and the motif of the other 14 stories of the collection is the last story The Dead. The description of Dubliners is realistic, concise and there are a lot of details that can brought to a deeper meaning. There is a use of realism mixed with symbolism. For Joyce symbolism is a way to take the reader beyond the usual aspects of life through the analysis of particular. In the first three stories he employs a first-person narrator, who remains not identified and for the other 12 stories a third-person narrator and each story begin in medias res and he utilises the method of epiphany, a special moment that lead the character to a self-realisation. He utilises chiasmus that create melodic effects. The language is simple, objective and neutral and there is the presence of free direct speech. For his technique of writing, he is one of the greatest representatives of Modernism. EVELINE
