James Joyce

An Irish novelist

James Joyce – the novelist

Experimental use of language Technical innovations - extensive use of

interior monologue Used a complex network of symbolic

parallels- mythology, history, and literature Created a unique language of invented

words, puns, and allusions.

James Joyce’s background

was born in Dublin, 1882 Joyce’s father:John Stanislaus Joyce, an

impoverished gentleman Joyce's mothe: Mary Jane Murray, an

accomplished pianist, Roman Catholic The family struggled to maintain a solid

middle-class facade.

James Joyce’s education

At age of 6 educated by Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College, at Clane and then Belvedere College in Dublin

Entered the University College, Dublin. Joyce's first publication: An essay on Ibsen's

play When We Dead Awaken,1900.

James Joyce’s travels

Went to Paris, worked as a journalist, teacher Returning after a year - his mother was

dying. Left in 1904 with Nora Barnacle, who he

married in 1931. the First World War, moved with his family to

Zürich. Moved to France, after the fall of France in

WWII, Joyce returned to Zürich, where he died on January 13, 1941

James Joyce’s work

Published a collection of poems, Chamber Music in 1907

Dubliners in 1914 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in

1916 a play Exiles in 1918 Ulysses in 1922.

James Joyce’s work

In Zürich Joyce started to develop the early chapters of Ulysses

In March 1923 Joyce started in Paris his second major work, Finnegans Wake

Some considered the work a masterpiece Many readers found it incomprehensible