After doing a little bit of research, I found James Joyce to be one of the most interesting and clever authors that I've read up on.
Born February 2nd, 1882, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce grew up in Dublin Ireland with his nine younger brothers (who I will not name for the sake of time), his father, John Stanislaus Joyce, and his mother, Marry Murray Joyce. Evidently, through his writing, James Joyce demonstrated many intellectual qualities, which he kept from birth. He taught himself Norwegian so that he could read Henrik Ibsen's plays in their native tongue, and delved into the writing of Dante, Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas.
His education was largely led by Jesuits, as he went to Clongowes Wood College and Belvedere college prior to landing at University College Dublin (where he earned his BA for "modern languages"). Despite his degree, Joyce attempted at a new life in Paris to study medicine. However, he returned to Ireland upon hearing that his mother fell ill, and soon died in 1903.
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I don't want to change the topic much but I actually think there might be a hidden parallel between his mother's death and Stephen Dedalus' mother's death in Ulysses.
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Joyce soon after became an English teacher and knew about 16 other languages, which included Italian, Arabic, Sanskrit, and Greek. However, on top of his teaching career, Joyce wrote constantly.
His first book was collection of 15 short stories called Dubliners (1914) and his second was a novel titled Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914). Despite not being that successful, he did manage to receive praise from American poet, Ezra Pound, for his unconventional writing. That same year, Joyce went on to write one of the most critically acclaimed novels, Ulysses, a modern version of Greek poet, Homer's, Odyssey.
When World War II arose, Joyce and his family fled to Zurich and then moved to Paris, shortly after. At this time, Joyce would suffer from a multitude of illnesses, which were mostly concerning his eyes. Some of these ocular inclusses even made him near blind for a few years. Unfortunately, after one of his many surgeries, Joyce died at the age of 59 on January 13th, 1941.
Born February 2nd, 1882, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce grew up in Dublin Ireland with his nine younger brothers (who I will not name for the sake of time), his father, John Stanislaus Joyce, and his mother, Marry Murray Joyce. Evidently, through his writing, James Joyce demonstrated many intellectual qualities, which he kept from birth. He taught himself Norwegian so that he could read Henrik Ibsen's plays in their native tongue, and delved into the writing of Dante, Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas.
His education was largely led by Jesuits, as he went to Clongowes Wood College and Belvedere college prior to landing at University College Dublin (where he earned his BA for "modern languages"). Despite his degree, Joyce attempted at a new life in Paris to study medicine. However, he returned to Ireland upon hearing that his mother fell ill, and soon died in 1903.
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I don't want to change the topic much but I actually think there might be a hidden parallel between his mother's death and Stephen Dedalus' mother's death in Ulysses.
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Joyce soon after became an English teacher and knew about 16 other languages, which included Italian, Arabic, Sanskrit, and Greek. However, on top of his teaching career, Joyce wrote constantly.
His first book was collection of 15 short stories called Dubliners (1914) and his second was a novel titled Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914). Despite not being that successful, he did manage to receive praise from American poet, Ezra Pound, for his unconventional writing. That same year, Joyce went on to write one of the most critically acclaimed novels, Ulysses, a modern version of Greek poet, Homer's, Odyssey.
When World War II arose, Joyce and his family fled to Zurich and then moved to Paris, shortly after. At this time, Joyce would suffer from a multitude of illnesses, which were mostly concerning his eyes. Some of these ocular inclusses even made him near blind for a few years. Unfortunately, after one of his many surgeries, Joyce died at the age of 59 on January 13th, 1941.
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| A photograph of James Joyce |
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