![]() It’s telling that Joyce spent much of his adult life living outside of his native Ireland, on the Continent, where he could absorb French literary influences which would be so important for his development as a novelist. Joyce said that he wrote the short stories that make up Dubliners in order to give Ireland one good look at itself in the mirror: his vision of Ireland is an unflinchingly realist ‘warts and all’ depiction of a country which, especially in those early works, seems gripped by a paralysis (a key word for Dubliners) that is partly a result of the country’s obsession with its own past and with Catholicism. But unlike Yeats, Joyce had no time for the romantic vision of Ireland encapsulated by the Celtic Twilight. Yeats, Joyce writes about the country he knew so well: Ireland, the country of his birth. Like his fellow countryman, the Irish poet W. One of the neighbor girls gets the ring, and Mrs. Each of these works represents a development from the last, with Joyce’s writing becoming increasingly experimental, obscure, and challenging. The children play a party game in which a blindfolded person chooses a gift from a table. ![]() ![]() His reputation largely rests on just four works: a short story collection Dubliners (1914), and three novels: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939). ![]() James Joyce (1882-1941) is one of the most important modernist writers of the early twentieth century. ![]()
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