biography
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Joyce, James (Augustine Aloysius)
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| (1882–1941)
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| Writer, born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied in University College, Dublin, went in 1902 to Paris to study medicine, then took up voice training for a concert career. Back in Dublin, he published a few stories but, unable to make a living by his pen, left for Pola to tutor in English. He started the short-lived Volta Cinema Theatre in 1909, and left Dublin in 1910. He later went to Zürich (1915), where he formed a company of English players, settled in Paris (1920–40), where he married Nora Barnacle in 1931, then returned to Zürich, where he died. His early work includes the short stories, Dubliners (1914), and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). His best-known book, Ulysses, based on one day in Dublin (16 Jun 1904), was published in Paris by Silvia Beach in 1922, but was banned in the UK and USA until 1934. Work in Progress began to appear in 1927, and finally emerged as Finnegans Wake (1939), which presents the story of a Dublin tavern-keeper, Chimpden Earwicker. His work revolutionized the novel form, partly through the abandonment of ordinary plot for ‘stream of consciousness’, but more fundamentally through his unprecedented exploration of language and linguistic experimentation. |
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