Joyce, James - Ulysses (7)

Modern novel

Ulysses is the antihero, according to Joyce there’s no more value in him. He is a man completely different from a Greek hero. There’s no division between past, present and future, you can’t distinguish period of time.

The reality is obliging you to describe the routine but it’s not interesting. You continuously remember other scene, emotion and people. Create a new style in writing. The narration is continuously interrupted.

Thanks to psychological analysis and war nothing of the previous age continued to live. Everybody is experiencing the same. They are able to communicate their condition but emotion are not enough. Feelings and memory to describe the new situation.

Future is obscure, time has no meaning. It’s describe a moment of being not a sequence of actions. Freud and his theory influenced author, there’s the possibility to investigate mind. Dreams are analyzed to understand what there’s in mind.

Mind of people is broken because there are the effects of the war. Memory where preserved, memories continued to influence adults. Subjective way to see the reality. The traditional scheme is not respected, there are different way to measure time.

You can’t give a structure to time. Time units doesn’t exist. This happens thanks to the arrive of psychoanalysis. Progress in what makes people paralyzed and they don’t believe in future.

“Eveline” by James Joyce

Form and way of writing are representative of the artist. The artist has not the job to persuade the readers or share emotions, his job consist on makes people see, in an impersonal way, what is inside the mind of character.

Nothing is narrated. Self-explanatory: explain itself; the work of art is what is able to explain itself. There are different emotions and different characters. They have no chance in their existence.

What is changing in the modern époque. These persons are paralyzed. Eveline is paralyzed because there’s no value to believe in. Eveline has the desire to escape from her house.

She is afraid of her future, her future has no chance, she is mentally paralyzed. Everybody has a different perception of reality and the future is uncertain. We are able to see what Eveline sees.

There’s a limited social tradition and culture, it’s impossible to change. Ugliness of the period. They can’t realize their desire because Dublin is the centre of the paralysis.

Life in Dublin is impossible, people is suffocated. She has not good condition because she’s not experiencing something interesting. “Dusty cretonne” nothing brilliant in her life. She was tired, physical fatigue. A kind of melancholy.