JAMES JOYCE: (1882-1941)

JAMES JOYCE: (1882-l941)

Life:

From Dublin, from a well-to-do family whose situation deteriorated partly as a result of the decline in fortune econ.

Influence: betrayal, temporary nature of fame antiheroes as protagonists & rejection of stifling (soffocante)

atmosphere of Dublin.

Works:

Difficults in 10 years abroad: TS, Rome.

He wrote Dubliners, short stories.

Financial & health problems.

1919: starts to published Ulysses, but was found obscene.

J. & traditions:

Admired aestheticisminterest in form.

Litterature: means to promote awareness(consapevolezza), but art should be indepe. of other disciplines & moral aim

Role of Artist:

His task: neither to teach nor to convince, but to make people aware of reality, through their own subjective perception

Form he sought(cerca) was one making a literary work as impersonal as possible.

Separate elements of the picture that would enable the reader to reach their own conclusions

Form

His works carried no messages from himself: he adopted different points of view, narrative techniques, linguistic

styles appropriate to different characters & situations.

3° person-narrator, stream of consciousness

Fragmented, multifaced nature of reality, subject dimension of experience.

Cubism

Language

Linguistic resourcefulness(intraprendenza): render in writing the rhythm, tone, of a large variety of speaking voices

Theme

Youth, adolescence, adulthood, maturity. How identity is affected by these stages of life.

All books have an autobiographical dimension.

Eveline

Frustrated young woman, facing the 1° challenge of adulthood.

She dreams of escaping from her drab(monotona) life , but at the crucial moment she is powerless to act.

Narrator rarely disappear, story is a form of 3°person-narrator which proceed entirely from Eveline's point of view,

mostly from inside her mind.

Language: plain vocabulary & simple syntax of the character.

Lower social classes. Piccola parte di vita che rappresenta la vita.

immagini: polvere (staticità) e mare (movement, freedom..)

Disegno di Dublino: incapacità di cambiare, incomunicabilità

Ulysses

Parallelism with the odyssey: the journey. Viaggio nel tempo soggettivo (esperienze personali)

Variety of style, different points of view.

From 3°person narration to interior monologue.

Events of a single day. Physical 6 psycological wanderings of the 3 main characters.

Realistic, symbolic..title for interpretation.

Imposes an ancient myth upon contemporary experience. Myths to arrange the fragments of experience.