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James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Dublin, Ireland, into a large Catholic family. Joyce was a very good pupil, studying poetics, languages, and philosophy at Clongowes Wood College, Belvedere College, and the Royal University in Dublin. Joyce taught school in Dalkey, Ireland, before marrying in 1904. Joyce lived in Zurich and Triest, show more teaching languages at Berlitz schools, and then settled in Paris in 1920 where he figured prominently in the Parisian literary scene, as witnessed by Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. Joyce's collection of fine short stories, Dubliners, was published in 1914, to critical acclaim. Joyce's major works include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Stephen Hero. Ulysses, published in 1922, is considered one of the greatest English novels of the 20th century. The book simply chronicles one day in the fictional life of Leopold Bloom, but it introduces stream of consciousness as a literary method and broaches many subjects controversial to its day. As avant-garde as Ulysses was, Finnegans Wake is even more challenging to the reader as an important modernist work. Joyce died just two years after its publication, in 1941. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Letters of James Joyce, Volume 2
- Original publication date
- 1966
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- James Joyce; Nora Joyce; Giorgio Joyce; Lucia Joyce; Harriet Shaw Weaver; Ezra Pound (show all 7); Valery Larbaud
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- Paris, France; Zurich, Switzerland
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- To live in Pola had been embarrassing for Joyce, to live in Rome irritating, to live in Trieste quant but inconvenient.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I said I knew nothing, that he had collected some material, that I have never seen a page of the book itself and that I had heard he had laid the book aside temporarily and I supposed, was going back to U.S.A. Sincerely yours J.J.
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