Scarica James Joyce: A Life of Ordinary Extraordinariness - From Dublin to Paris and Back e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! ・LIFE James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. He graduated at University College in Dublin, and he describes Ireland from an European viewpoint. He stayed in Paris where he wanted to start a writing career, but after his mother’s death, he returned to Dublin. In June 1904 he met and got married with Nora Barnacle, and they had their first date on 16th June, which was to become the Bloom’s day of Ulysses. TRIESTE In 1905 they moved to Trieste where Joyce began teaching English and made friends with Italo Svevo. The years in Trieste were difficult, for financial problems. He published “Dubliners'' (1914) that was a collection of short stories all about Dublin and its life, and “a portrait of the artist as a young man” (1916), his semi autobiographical novel. PARIS In 1920 Joyce moved to Paris, where he published Ulysses in 1922. The novel traces the experiences of Mr Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly and the poet Stephen Dedalus from A Portrait of the Artist, on a single day, 16th June 1904, set in Dublin. Then he published “Finnegans Wake” in 1939. With its variety of puns and new words, this novel was even more difficult to read than his previous works. However, the book was a success. ZURICH He died at the age of 59 in 1941, buried in Zurich. ORDINARY DUBLIN He set all his works in Ireland and mostly in the city of Dublin. His achievement was to give a realistic portrait of the life of ordinary people doing ordinary things and living ordinary lives. By portraying these ordinary Dubliners, he succeeded in representing the whole mankind. A SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTION OF TIME Joyce was a Modernist writer. In his works the facts become confused ‘cause they are explored from different points of view simultaneously and are presented as clues and not through the voice of an omniscient narrator. He meticulously collects and analyzes the impressions and thoughts that an outer event, at a given moment, has caused in the inner world of the character. Joyce’s stories and novels open in medias res and the portrait of the character is based on introspection rather than on description. Time is not perceived as objective but as subjective. The description of Dublin is not derived from external reality, but from the characters’ mind. CHURCH He criticizes Catholicism, which paralyzes Dubliners’ minds. STYLE The author doesn’t express his point of view: Joyce uses different points of view and narrative techniques appropriate to the several characters portrayed. His style developed from realism and the disciplined prose of the Dubliners, through an exploration of the characters’ impression and point of view, the use of the free direct speech and the epiphany, to monologue with two levels of narration, up to the extreme interior monologue. The Language broke down into a succession of words without punctuation or grammar connections, into infinite puns. ・DUBLINERS It consists of fifteen short stories concerned about human situations, moments of intensity and lead to a moral, social or spiritual revelation. Joyce describes Dublin as the centre of paralysis, he presents it through four aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The last story, The Dead, can be considered Joyce’s first masterpiece. It summarizes themes and motifs of the other 14 stories and it functions more as an epilogue.
