James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. 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. His writings include Chamber Music (1907), Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Exiles (1918), Ulysses (1922), Pomes Penyeach (1927), and Finnegan's Wake (1939). Ulysses required seven years to complete and Finnegan's Wake, took seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.
"Ulysses will immortalize its author with the same certainty that
Gargantua immortalized Rabelais, and The Brothers Karamazov
immortalized Dostoyevsky.... It comes nearer to being the perfect
revelation of a personality than any book in existence."
-The New York Times
"To my mind one of the most significant and beautiful books of our
time."
-Gilbert Seldes, in The Nation
"Talk about understanding "feminine psychology"-- I have never read
anything to surpass it, and I doubt if I have ever read anything to
equal it."
-Arnold Bennett
"In the last pages of the book, Joyce soars to such rhapsodies of
beauty as have probably never been equaled in English prose
fiction."
-Edmund Wilson, in The New Republic
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