Scarica James Joyce, Ulysses, Molly Bloom e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941) He was born in Dublin in 1882, into a middle class Catholic family. His father was a supporter of Charles Parnell, the leader of the movement for Hame Rule for Ireland, but after Parnell's death in 1891 he had retired from politics and social life. As such, he became representative for Joyce of the failures of his own country. Finding life in Ireland an obstacle to his own artistic development, in 1902 Joyce committed himself to a life of self-imposed exile. He went first to Paris, then to Pola in 1904 and finally to Trieste. In Trieste, Joyce finished his first two important works: Dubliners (1914) At the outbreak of World War I, Joyce left for Zurich, where he started working on his masterpiece, Ulysses. In 1920 he moved to Paris. There Joyce was considered one of the prophets of Modernism and there Ulysses was finally published in 1922 then Joyce and his family returned to Zurich, where he died. The relationship between Joyce and Ireland is complex. On the surface he seems to have rejected everything that was Irish; at a deeper level, though, all of Joyce's works are centred on Ireland and, more specifically, on the Dublin he knew. His self-imposed exile was necessary not only to give him the unrestricted artistic climate he needed, but also to give im the objectivity he needed to write about Ireland with the necessary emotional and intellectual detachment. ULYSSES (1922) Ulyses first came out in Paris in 1922. In Paris, that the novel was published, while in England, it was banned for obscenity until 1936. Joyce, uses the Homer's epic hero to stress the lack of heroism, of ideals, of love and trust in the modern world: the epic structure thus becomes a mirror in which to reflect the modern waste land. Together with Eliot's The Waste Land, Ulysses is one of the greatest examples of the reworking of myth in modernist literature. To convey the life of an individual in a single day, and in the absence of a dramatic plot, Joyce chose to give the minutest details of that day and especially the characters' process of thinking. The technical innovation here was the adoption of the 'stream-of-consciousness' technique, a difficult prose style which eliminates syntactic and grammatical connectives and combines disparate and apparently incongruous images, in an attempt to show the chaotic flow of thoughts in the human mind. ❖ The story Ulysses tells the story of a day (June 16, 1904) in the life of Leopold Bloom, a Dubliner of Jewish origin who works as an advertising agent. He is the Ulysses of the title, and wanders about the streets of
