La vita e le opere di James Joyce, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica La vita e le opere di James Joyce e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! James Joyce Life Paris —> Pola —> Trieste (Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) • WWI —> Zurich —> Ulysses • He was gradually become blind (poor health) • Paris —> Ulysses was published in 1922 • Welcomed by the artistic environment of Paris • When France was occupied by Germans —> Zurich —> Died in 1941 • Themes Ireland —> Dublin = center of his work —> even if he said he rejected everything that was Irish • Precise details in describing early 20th century Dublin (people, streets, houses, language..) • Self-exile —> objectivity about Ireland —> emotional and intellectual detachment • Joyce’s life —> development and growth • Movement from the particular to the universal • DUBLINERS (Testi: Eveline p 208 - The Dead p 211) Paralysis and stagnation is presented in 4 stages: childhood, youth, maturity and public life • It’s both realistic and symbolic —> each common object is the key to a revelation on reality • —> epiphany (a sudden manifestation, an ordinary situation that explodes in a revelation and makes someone realize their miserable condition) ULYSSES Published in Paris in 1922 (like West Land) • In England banned for obscenity until 1936 • The wanerings and tribulations of Ulysses are used to parallel the events of life of common men and • women in Dublin One single day (June 16th 1904) and two ordinary people •