Scarica James Joyce: A Life of Self-Exile and Literary Masterpieces e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JAMES JOYCE James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882 into a middle class Catholic family. He studied in a school of Jesuits, where he was taught the discipline. He was isolated from the society and he appeared with glasses, because he had serious eyes problem. He likes to see the same fact from different point of view (like Picasso). He committed himself a life of self-imposed exile, he went to Paris, then to Pola and finally to Trieste, where he met Svevo. There he made two important works: - Dubliners (1914) - A portrait of the artist as a Young man (1916). At the outbreak of World War I, he started working on his masterpiece, Ulysses, that was published in 1922 in Paris. He also wrote his last novel Finnegan Wake, that was published in 1939. A portrait of the artist as a Young man It is Joyce’s autobiographical novel where he wanted to represent only a point of view of all the reality. This novel is setting in Dublin and is divided in different chapter. Is it the story of a man who became an artist and the protagonist is Stephen Dedalus. It is a symbolical name: Stephen represents the martyr of art and Dedalus it is a mythological character that want to escape from the society. Dubliners It is a collection of 15 short stories, published in 1914 using the pen name Stephen Dedalus. They contain epiphanies and paralysis. A paralysis is an inner revelation of the protagonist and they stuck in the scene. He thought that Dublin was in the centre of the paralysis and the people cannot escape. An epiphany is a sudden revelation on the mind of the protagonist. All the stories are setting in Dublin and it is seen from different point of view. He usually shows the typical Irish family: - dad is a drunk and he not consider the children, - women are sensible and week, - children are never consider by the father. - Eveline summary 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. Eveline feels tired. While she is looking outside, she listens to a pipe organ playing, which recalls to her mind a song she heard before her mother’s death. She remembers the field in which she and other children once played until a man from Belfast bought it and built houses on it. The world outside the window makes her think about her childhood. She is terrifying by his father who abuses her, and he stole her parsimony. She feels also frustrated because of her job as a shop assistant. In the room where Eveline stands, she notices the picture of a priest, a school friend of his father. The priest has become a yellowing photograph, the promises made to Blessed Mary Margaret Alacoque are next to his picture. All these objects share their being old and dusty. Frank is her boyfriend, and he is a sailor. She has planned to go with Frank to Buenos Aires. Before leaving, she holds two letters: one is for Harry, her brother, and the other is for her father. However, when she arrives at the port with Frank and they are embarking, Eveline thinks again about her past, especially to the promise she made to her mother, promising she would have kept the family together. Consequently, she stands still and does not follow her boyfriend. Frank, who has already embarked on the ship, shouts at her inviting her to join him. At the end of the story, though, he is forced to leave without her. - Araby summary The nameless narrator of the story talks about life on North Richmond Street. The former tenant of their apartment was a priest who died. Some books have been left behind, and the young boy narrator sometimes looks at them. He is raised by his aunt and uncle. One of his playmates is a boy named Mangan, and the narrator develops a crush on his friend Mangan's sister. Mangan and his sister live in a building across the street. The narrator watches her and waiting for her to leave in the mornings so that he can follow her on part of his way to school. One day, the girl finally speaks to him, to ask if he will go to Araby. Araby is the name of an upcoming bazaar with an Arabian theme. She can't go, because she is going on a religious retreat that weekend. The narrator, full of romantic notions, says that he will go and find gift for her. The boy can think of little but the girl, the Orientalist bazaar, and the gift he will get for her. The day finally arrives, and the boy reminds his uncle that he wishes to go to the bazaar that night. His uncle will have to get home on time to give him the money for a ride to the bazaar, as well as a bit of spending money. That night, his uncle is late. The boy despairs of being able to go at all, but finally his uncle comes home. His uncle has forgotten about the bazaar, and by now it is quite late. But the boy still wants to go, and he takes the small sum of money for the train and heads off. He arrives at the bazaar just as it is closing. Only a few stalls are open. He examines the goods, but they are far too expensive for him. The lights are being shut off, and the narrator despairs: "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger." Eveline Araby Associated to freedom Associated to passion, love, exotic Adult very far from the adolescent The father Adult very far from the adolescent The uncle Third person narrator First person narrator Story of adolescent Story of childhood Open ending Open ending Paralysis in front of the port Paralysis in front of the Araby Ulysses Ulysses tells the story of a day, the Bloom’s day. In this day nothing special happens, he focuses on different point of view of the three protagonists: - Leopold Bloom - Stephen Dedalus
