James Joyce
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born
February 02, 1882
died
January 13, 1941
gender
male
place of birth
Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland
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Literature & Fiction, Poetry
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James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist, noted for his experimental use of language in such works as Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce's technical innovations in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue; he used a complex network of symbolic parallels drawn from the mythology, history, and literature, and created a unique language of invented words, puns, and allusions.
James Joyce was born in Dublin, on February 2, 1882, as the son of John Stanislaus Joyce, an impoverished gentleman, who had failed in a distillery business and tried all kinds of professions, including politics and tax collecting. Joyce's mother, Mary Jane Murray, was ten years younger than her husband. She was an accompl...more
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce avg rating 3.60 — 14,269 ratings — published 1916 148 editions |
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Dubliners by James Joyce avg rating 3.92 — 9,361 ratings — published 1914 190 editions |
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Ulysses by James Joyce avg rating 3.85 — 7,258 ratings — published 1922 140 editions |
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce avg rating 3.65 — 1,170 ratings — published 1939 56 editions |
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The Dead (Art of the Novella series, The) by James Joyce avg rating 4.16 — 881 ratings — published 1914 13 editions |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) by James Joyce avg rating 3.76 — 323 ratings — published 1961 6 editions |
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Stephen Hero by James Joyce avg rating 3.59 — 161 ratings — published 1948 7 editions |
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The Portable James Joyce by James Joyce, Harry Levin avg rating 4.13 — 121 ratings — published 1966 5 editions |
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Exiles: Literary Classics by James Joyce avg rating 3.30 — 108 ratings — published 1918 11 editions |
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Giacomo Joyce by James Joyce avg rating 3.71 — 52 ratings — published 1957 32 editions |
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James Joyce — Finnegans Wake
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"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning."
— James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
— James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
— James Joyce
— James Joyce
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"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."
— James Joyce (Ulysses)
— James Joyce (Ulysses)
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