Concetti Chiave
- James Joyce, born in Ireland in 1882, moved to France and then Trieste, where he wrote "Dubliners" and gained initial success as a writer.
- Despite leaving Ireland early, Joyce set all his works there to depict ordinary life and capture the essence of the human mind through Dubliners.
- Joyce believed in the artist's impersonality, aiming to objectively render life without expressing personal views, reflected in his narrative style.
- His writing style is notable for its use of interior monologue and complex language, often lacking traditional grammar or punctuation.
- "Dubliners" is a collection of fifteen stories exploring themes of psychological paralysis, with each story ending in a revelation and told from different perspectives.
James Joyce was born in Ireland, in 1882. He studied at languages school, and as an adult, he didn’t feel comfortable in his Ireland, so he moved first in France then in Trieste where he settled a family. In Trieste he wrote Dubliners, and he started having success as a writer. Later he moved to Zurich where he wrote Ulysses, whose publication, brought him an unwelcome notoriety because of its presumed pornography . He died in Switzerland in 1941.
Although he early moved from Ireland, Joyce set all his works in Ireland because he wanted to represent ordinary men doing ordinary things, and through these ordinary Dubliners he could represent the whole human mind.
Joyce believed in the impersonality of the artist.
Dubliners
Dubliners is a collection of fifteen stories, linked by a particular structure and the presence of the same themes. The main theme of the stories is the psychological paralysis of men. Every story lacks of real actions, but ends with a revelation. The stories are arranged in four groups, starting from childhood and arriving to mature and social life. Each story is narrated from the perspective of a character and the language is various.
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