James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father’s wastrel behavior. After receiving a rigorous Jesuit education, twenty-year-old Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin in 1902 to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. On one trip back to Ireland, he fell in love with the now famous Nora Barnacle on June 16, the day he later chose as “Bloomsday” in his novel Ulysses. Nara was an uneducated Galway girl who became his lifelong companion an the mother of his two children. In debt and drinking heavily, Joyce lived for thirty-six years on the Continent, supporting himself first by teaching jobs, then trough the patronage of Mrs. Harold McCormick (Edith Rockerfeller) and the English feminist and editor Harriet Shaw Weaver. His writings include Chamber music (1907), Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Exiles (1918), Ulysses (1922), Poems Penyeach (1927), Finnegans Wake (1939), and an early draft of A Portrait of a Young Man, Stephan Hero (1944). Ulysses required seven years to complete, and his masterpiece, Finnegans Wake, took seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.
Published in 1916, James Joyce's semiautobiographical tale of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is a coming-of-age story like no other. A bold, innovative experiment with both language and structure, the work has exerted a lasting influence on the contemporary novel.
'Joyce dissolved mechanism in literature as effectively as Einstein destroyed it in physics,' wrote Alfred Kazin. 'He showed that the material of fiction could rest upon as tense a distribution and as delicate a balance of its parts as any poem. Joyce's passion for form, in fact, is the secret of his progress as a novelist. He sought to bring the largest possible quantity of human life under the discipline of the observing mind, and the mark of his success is that he gave an epic form to what remains invisible to most novelists.... Joyce means many things to different people; for me his importance has always been primarily a moral one. He was, perhaps, the last man in Europe who wrote as if art were worth a human life.... By living for his art he may yet have given others a belief in art worth living for.'
曾经在学校图书馆的一角看到过乔伊斯的名作《尤利西斯》,翻看了几页就放弃了。那个时候总觉得这种晦涩难懂的意识流书籍还是远离为妙,太伤脑细胞。很久过后的现在,空闲迷茫状态的我,决定静下心来细细品读那几部一直想看的大作。《青年艺术家画像》被誉为《尤利西斯》前...
评分1904年1月,22岁的爱尔兰青年詹姆斯·乔伊斯应都柏林一个新杂志《达纳》之约,写了一篇叙事体散文题为《艺术家的画像》。但是这篇短文最终并未得以发表,编辑以内容难以理解为由,拒绝予以刊登。在这篇文章里,乔伊斯展现出强大的企图心,运用他的"心灵顿悟速写",将往事像流水...
评分“我将去面对无数的现实经历,将在我那灵魂的作坊里打造我的民族所不曾有的良心。” 读到这里,《一个青年艺术家的画像》结束了。当我怀着难以平复的激动心情合上书页,这本薄薄的小说在我的内心深处激荡起层层的涟漪,我的视线不禁长久的停留在封面上方小说题目里的这几个字上...
评分读书|1925.詹姆斯·乔伊斯《一个青年艺术家的画像》 喜欢他那犹如一个人的喃喃自语般的叙述。从记事儿的儿时开始。在缓缓的水流中,将思想的河床冲洗的清晰明了。犹如山里的一股清泉。甘甜。还有点凉。也如同攀登一座没有被石头铺砌而成直通山顶的道路的深山一样。走着走着,一...
评分读乔伊斯读得太晚,一如我的冗杂浑沌的人生,早早蜷于幻想,耽于审美。 一面如此渴求着真实,一面却缘木求鱼般久久踯躅在封闭、自溺的体系。 执着于愿望,却忽视了能力;逃避丑恶,却也逃避了责任;厌弃功利,却甚或因此早早迷失自我的方向。 乔伊斯的身上有如此深厚、宽广...
跟这本比起来,hesse的steppenwolf就是渣啊。。乔伊斯与福克纳两座大山是给我许多对英语文学自信力的。虽然不小心又被带入了,但是内心又觉得,有些部分真的可以写进小说里么。。。置身于主人公的语境下,我大概是没有那样的独立与勇气的,也让我重新对流亡有了更深的认识。如果说这本书讲的是作为唤醒的艺术的话,这本书本身对于我来说就是唤醒。我的vocation又是什么呢?
评分To talk too much aesthetics into beauty may lead one astray from the original marvel of the magnificent myths. The discussions are quite interesting to read though, and the constant inner struggles, the debates between selves.
评分To talk too much aesthetics into beauty may lead one astray from the original marvel of the magnificent myths. The discussions are quite interesting to read though, and the constant inner struggles, the debates between selves.
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评分读了2个chapter.读不下去。
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