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  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