Scarica James Joyce:Dubliners, Ulysses e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! James Joyce was born in Dublin, during the period in which several movements asked for independence of Ireland from the United Kingdom. (see page F8) BUT he never took part to rebbellion: he is considered a rebel among rebels His main interest was in broader European culture and in offering a realistic portrait of Irish life so that his Country could increase awareness of its identity • Moved to Paris but returned to Dublin in 1903 • Met his wife Nora Barnacle. She will inspire "Bloomsday" of Ulysses (1904) • Theymoved to Trieste and he made friends with Italo Svevo. • Returned back to Paris where he published Ulysses (1922) • From France to Switzerland because of Hitler's advances in Europe Although he had published, after several troubles with editors, Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man which had established him as a writer, the publication of Ulysses gave him an unwelcome notoriety, since the masterpiece was submitted to court action in the USA in order to establish whether it was pornographic or not. Only after years (1934 in USA and 1936 in Britain) was Ulysses published as a novel of artistic integrity. Dublin Joyce moved from Ireland when he was only 22 but his main interest was to portray Dublin and ordinary people doing ordinary things and living ordinary lives. the realistic portrait was achieved by representing man under mental, emotional and biological reality. The perception of time is, therefore, subjective. Facts are confused, explored from different viewpoints and there is no omniscient narrator. Impressions and thoughts are collected and analysed so that an outer event causes an inner emotion in characters. The analysis of particular moments and the portrait of characters are given through introspection rather than description. Description of Dublin comes from the characters' minds floating and not from the narrator's description. - Narrative technique in order to give a true image of life to reader. Artist must be impersonal - Devices used by Joyce: Different viewpoints and techniques according to characters portraied. Free direct speech and the epiphany, interior monologue with two levels of narration. extreme interior monologue. Dubliners a realistic picture of afflicted people, unable to find a way out from reality. It is a portrait of human situation and moments of intesity The aim is not didactic but just a moral, social or spiritual revelation. " I chose Dublin...because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to indifferent public..." Epiphany Realism is mixed with symbols appearing in the stories, that is external details with deeper meanings according to the characters' minds and experiences. The sudden manifestation caused by trivial gestures, external objects or banal situations can lead the characters to a sudden self-realisation
