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.'
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...
評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...
評分 評分 評分第一次知道乔伊斯,是高中语文课外读本,里面有大段大段对国外文学名著的简介,其中一篇就是关于乔伊斯的意识流小说《尤利西斯》,父亲看了课外读本的简介后,不知道从哪里找来了两本厚厚的《尤利西斯》,我对于这种大部头向来是看不进去的,只记得当时把这两本书借给了同班同...
讀瞭2個chapter.讀不下去。
评分這讓我怎麼打星好呢。我壓根就沒看懂呀……
评分意識流的他。絕對是今年看過最難的書瞭。。。Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
评分心目中能和《變形記》《包法利夫人》比肩的作品。革新小說寫作的技法,藝術地把控文字和細節,「捕捉生命的瞬間和微光」。
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.
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