James Joyce: Life and Major Works - Dubliners and Ulysses, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica James Joyce: Life and Major Works - Dubliners and Ulysses e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! James Joyce BIOGRAPHY - born in Dublin in 1882 - attended a Jesuit boarding school - he studied at University College in Dublin - he decided for self-exile in 1902 > he couldn’t stand the sense of PARALYSIS and STAGNATION > he blamed the Irish people who didn’t do anything but accept the situation without improving their life + the church + the family > he decided to move to the continent and he never came back - on 16th June 1904 he met his wife - he became teacher of English in Trieste and he started a friendship with Italo Svevo > he helped Svevo’s novel to reach public notice - he published Dubliners in England in 1914 - he published Ulysses in Paris in 1922 - he died in 1941 DUBLINERS - collection of short stories (15) published in 1914 - set in Dublin (perfect description of the city) - divided into four parts > stories about childhood > stories about adolescence (EVELINE) > stories about mature life > stories about public life > the last story is a long story/a short novel - central moment of epiphany > present in every short story > sudden revelation during which the protagonist understands the importance of something he used to take for granted (he never realized it before) - narration > shift between in and out > sometimes you follow the thought of the character ( interior monologue) and sometimes you read the descriptions done by the narrator > thoughts are never chronological but they are done by association > he writes about that to resemble reality > his way of narration moves slowly towards the stream of consciousness ULYSSES - set in Dublin (lot of realistic details of the city) - it describes only one day (16th June 1904) starting from 8 o’clock > day in which Joyce met his wife