From his early work, «Dubliners», to his last novel, «Finnegan’s Wake», Joyce shows a sort of obsession with his home town. His self-imposed exile was necessary not only to give him the unrestricted artistic climate he needed, but also to give him the objectivity he required to write about Ireland with the due emotional detachment. Even if, on one hand, he seems to have rejected everything concerning his native country, on the other he choose to set all his novels in Ireland and, more specifically, in the Dublin he knew. Dublin was for him, as he said, the “omphalos”, or navel, of the world.

JOYCE AND IRELAND Joyce’s relationship with Dublin, and Ireland, was complex.

When France was occupied by the Germans, Joyce returned to Zurich, where he died in 1941. There he was considered one of the prophets of Modernism and went on writing his last great novel «Finnegan’s Wake». At the outbreak of World War I, Joyce left Trieste for Zurich (Switzerland), where he started working on his masterpiece, «Ulysses». In Trieste, Joyce finished his fi rst two important works: «Dubliners» (a collection of short stories) and a partly autobiographical novel («A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man»). He went fi rst to Paris, then to Pola (Croatia) and finally to Trieste. Frustrated for personal reasons and disappointed by the social and political situation of his country, Joyce left Ireland (committing himself to a life of self-imposed exile).

Then, he studied modern languages at University College Dublin (UCD), where he graduated. Regarding Joyce’s education: he attended two Jesuits schools. After Parnell’s death (1891), Joyce’s father retired from politics and social life. This event symbolised the failure of his country’s hopes and displayed the incapacity of Ireland to get free from Britain’s domination. Parnell convinced Prime Minister Gladstone to present the Irish Home Rule Bill in the Houses of Parliament (1886), but it was twice rejected. His father was an ardent supporter of Charles Parnell, who was the leader of the Irish Home Rule movement: a movement that fought to gain Irish independence and autonomy. Scarica James Joyce: Biography and Summary of 'Dubliners'+'Ulysses' e più Temi in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JAMES JOYCE James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882 into a middle-class Catholic family whose social status and financial resources gradually diminished during his childhood.

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