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.'
这是值得读一辈子的小说,每次读后都觉得已经读懂了,可下一次看,却发现,其实依然不太懂。 本书是《尤利西斯》前传,但形式没那么叛逆,所以有点闷,与中国读者在情感上,多少有些隔阂,我们不太能和主人公同悲同喜。 因为,我们眼中的世界是“确定性”的,我们先天就承认...
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...
评分原文Stephen went on: ——Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatso...
评分这是值得读一辈子的小说,每次读后都觉得已经读懂了,可下一次看,却发现,其实依然不太懂。 本书是《尤利西斯》前传,但形式没那么叛逆,所以有点闷,与中国读者在情感上,多少有些隔阂,我们不太能和主人公同悲同喜。 因为,我们眼中的世界是“确定性”的,我们先天就承认...
评分Silence, exile, and cunning.
评分how touchingly he rejects the country and the race and the religion that produced him and chooses to arrest the minds of humanity; "to live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to create life out of life"! as if hearing a much shrewder mind reliving my own childhood, youth, and hopefully life.
评分接触意识流的开始。
评分乔伊斯试图模拟人思考的过程,与《都柏林人》中有所指的丰富细节不同。"portraits"中的各种感官、思考细节,可说其有所指,也可说其没有。实在是“Vague words for a vague emotion”。很佩服乔伊斯对于自己文学天才的克制和精确。
评分心目中能和《变形记》《包法利夫人》比肩的作品。革新小说写作的技法,艺术地把控文字和细节,「捕捉生命的瞬间和微光」。
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