James Joyce

Posted by Tel Asiado Feb 4, 2008

James Joyce

(February 2, 1882 - January 13, 1941)

He left and exiled himself from his native Ireland in his youth, but James Joyce never really left it, at least not the Ireland in his memory.

His works bespeaks of Irish history, religion, name it, almost everything in the patterns of everyday living - his masterpiece Ullyses that relates events in a single day, his other long novel that relates his thought process during a single night, Finnegan's Wake, and even his shorter novels Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Although some people might find his monologues that might seem like unrelated sentences and not easy to comprehend, for others, it is creatively rewarding, as it directly flows through to a reader's mind, an influence of the stream-of-consciousness technique that he avails.

Here's a link to James Joyce's brief biography.