Scarica James Joyce vita e opere e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! James Joyce Life and works James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. He was educated at Jersey school and later he attended University College in Dublin where he focus on modern languages in 1902.
He was interested for European culture and this led him to being to think of himself as a European rather than an Irishman. Joyce in fact believes that the only way to increase Ireland’s awareness was by offering a realistic portrait of its life from a European cosmopolitan viewpoint. Joyce moved to Paris for a short time but had to return to Dublin in 1903 due to a fatal illness of her mother. During this period he seriously began to envision a future in his literary career and decided to publish his first short stories: The Sisters, in the Evening Telegraph.
In 1904 he met and fall in love with Nora Barnacle. In 1905 the couple moved to Trieste where they had two children. These were difficult years for Joyce due to a financial crisis and various problems with publishers due to obscene elements in her lyrics.
In 1914 he wrote Dubliners, a collection of short stories about his life and Dublin. The book was not a real commercial success but it captured the attention of the American poet Ezra Pound who praised him for his modern style. In 1915 he moved to Zurich and thanks to an anonymous donation he managed to write Ulysses, published later in installments in The Little Review 1918, but was suspended in 1920 for obscenities. In 1920 he moved to Paris where thanks to Sylvia Beach, a publishing friend was able to publish Ulysses. This novel received both praise and criticism. This successful period was also characterized by unpleasant events: such as the worsening of the daughter's mental illness, the death of her father and his growing blindness. Despite these unpleasant events he continued to write by publishing Finnegans Wake (1939) characterized by several puns and new words, it was her most difficult novel. He died in Zurich in 1941 at the age of 59 following an intestinal operation. Style
Joyce was influenced by the French Symbolists. Since he thought that everyone looks at reality in different ways, he argued that the artist must give the reader an objective image of reality. In fact, in his works he uses different points of view and different narrative techniques based on the character who is intervening. To make the characters in his works express their thoughts, Joyce uses the direct interior monologue, unlike Virginia Wolf who uses the indirect interior monologue. Joyce's interior monologue is divided into two levels: -one external to the character's mind -the other internal with thoughts that stream of consciousness into the protagonist's mind without any interruption from the outside. The language is full of images, paradoxes, neologisms, quotes and symbols. For Joyce, in fact, the plot is not important but the protagonist's subconscious. He takes up the stream of consciousness from Virginia Wolf defining it as the set of sensations and emotions that an ordinary mind receives on an ordinary day. Joyce, unlike Virginia Wolf, uses different punctuation to express the flow of consciousness, not using correct punctuation or grammatical links. Joyce also states that time is a relative concept, in fact there are some moments in life that never seem to flow and others instead that flow so quickly that you don't notice it. Eveline Eveline is part of the Dubliners stories. Eveline is a 19-year-old girl who has the chance to escape to Buoenosaires with her boyfriend Frank and leave her troubled life behind her. She lived in Dublin, her mother died and she lives with her very violent father and her brother. Before her mother's death she had promised him she would stay in Dublin to take care of the family, so once she left with her boyfriend and heard a song that reminds her of her mother, she decided to go back to respect the pact.
