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.'
说实话,这本书给我的触动并不是很大。书中主人公立志成为一名艺术家的过程倒给我不少启发: 艺术家的眼光:家庭,宗教(在中国,则为官方说教),性爱都容易使人陷入一种平庸。惟有获得一种获取美感的能力“把普通的生活经历变成具有永恒生命力的光辉的杰作”(P256)的人才有...
评分一个月左右读完,当然不是一直读,偶尔读,最涩记录是一个多小时只盯着一页的一段话的几个词汇看,总之非常伤神经了,乔伊斯说过,他就想伤人。不能说是纯文本阅读,这目前被归为文学流派中意识流的代表作品所产生的艺术感觉远超于所定义的。可以说,我们先不急着对号入座,这...
评分乔伊斯对语言很敏感,所以他的文字很妙,《尤利西斯》里有部分章节写的也很妙,但自从三年前我硬着头皮读完它以后,我就再没有摸过它了,我一个哥们说《尤利西斯》写的很狂放,简直是语言的狂欢。我承认他说的没错,但这不代表它是个无懈可击的精品。《尤利西斯》太花哨了,所...
评分曾经充满豪情壮志地取下书架上的《尤利西斯》,但最终还是灰溜溜的还回去了。乔伊斯在我的心中一直是那么生涩、孤独、狂妄,然后还有一些些失落,至少我不敢那么轻易地靠近他。冲着“艺术家”的名目,花了两天的时间看了这本《一个青年艺术家的画像》,看着一个颖悟的男孩子对...
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...
Read more than a year ago during the summer; need to read it again
评分這讓我怎么打星好呢。我壓根就沒看懂呀……
评分一本不想读完的书
评分论文啊论文...
评分接触意识流的开始。
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.quotespace.org All Rights Reserved. 小美书屋 版权所有