Ulysses

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United States, 22 nov. 2002 - 736 sidor

Ulysses, written by James Joyce, is a modernist novel published in 1922. Set in Dublin, Ireland, the novel follows the life of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus over the course of one day, June 16th, 1904. Through a stream of consciousness narrative, Joyce explores the inner thoughts and feelings of his characters, as well as the city of Dublin itself. Ulysses is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature, and is widely studied in universities and colleges around the world. James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, and is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Other notable works by Joyce include: Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), and Finnegans Wake (1939).

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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, 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.

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