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James Joyce
1882-1941
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominently the stream of consciousness technique he perfected. Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). plete oeuvre includes three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters.
Brief introduction
writing career
1904 was very important to James Joyce, because his writing career started in 1904 after his mothers’ death. During the early period Joyce wrote most of DUNLINERS (1914), all of A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (1916), the play, EXILES(1918), and large sections of Ulysses.
In 1907 Joyce published a collection of poems, CHAMBER MUSIC.
In 1916 appeared a portrait of the artist as a young man, and autobiographical novel. At the outset of the first world war, Joyce moved his family to Zurich, where Joyce started to develop the early chapters of Ulysses. Joyce’s most famous novel, Ulysses, was published in Paris in 1922. In the s