Ulysses - Joyce, James

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Biographie:
James Joyce (1882-1941) was born in Dublin, Ireland, to a well-meaning but financially inept father and a solemn, pious mother. One of the most revered writers of the 20th century, he was noted for his experimental use of language in his works. His first publication, an essay on Ibsen's play, appeared in the Fortnightly Review in 1900. In 1904, he made his first attempt at a novel, Stephen Hero, and also attempted to publish A Portrait of the Artist, an essay-story dealing with aesthetics, only to have it rejected. At the outset of the First World War, Joyce moved to Zurich, where he wrote Exiles, reworked the early chapters of Ulysses, and published A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in a serial form. It appeared in twenty-five instalments in The Egoist. Almost a complete rewrite of the abandoned Stephen Hero, it is heavily autobiographical incorporating the techniques of stream of consciousness and interior monologue. Joyce died in 1941 at the age of 59....

Sommaire:
Widely regarded as one of the most important works of modernist literature, Ulysses by James Joyce is an ambitious, richly layered novel that revolutionized 20th-century fiction. Set over the course of a single day--June 16, 1904--in Dublin, the novel follows the wandering of Leopold Bloom, mirroring Homer's Odyssey in structure and theme. Through stream-of-consciousness narration, linguistic experimentation, and profound psychological insight, Joyce crafts a tapestry of human thought, identity, and existence. Both a challenge and a triumph, Ulysses remains a landmark in literary history.

A day in Dublin. A lifetime of literature.

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Themes:

• Identity and Self-Discovery
• The Mundane and the Epic
• Time and Memory
• Alienation and Belonging
• Sexuality and Human Desire
• Modernity and Consciousness
• Language and Narrative Experimentation
• Mortality and the Meaning of Life
• Religion and Guilt
• Love, Infidelity, and Forgiveness

Who Is It For?
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