Ulysses

Ulysses


1.About James Joyce
James Joyce was born on 2nd February, 1882, in Dublin, Ireland. He was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde, and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the twentieth century. He belonged to a catholic family who was poverty-stricken after his birth. He was educated in Jesuit schools at first and graduated from University College, Dublin afterwards. He was so gifted with a fine tenor voice that he might have become a great singer. His weak eyesight forced him to hear the world more than to see it and his writing displays not only his delicate ear for the nuances and cadences of language but also his preference for auditory imagery. In 1902, Joyce went to Paris in order to study medicine. However, he abandoned medical studies soon afterwards and devoted his time to writing poetry, stories and theories of art. He returned to Dublin in 1903 when his mother died. He stayed there for a year and fell in love with Nora Barnacle whom he married afterwards. In 1904, in his early twenties, Joyce emigrated permanently to continental Europe with Nora. They lived in Trieste, Paris, and Zurich. Though most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce's fictional universe centres on Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of Ulysses, he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal. 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,...

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