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| James Joyce Dublin 2 feb 1882 - Zürich 13 jan 1941 Irish poet and novelist
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| ON JAMES JOYCE'S BOOKSHELF The Odyssey Homer, ca. 700 v.Chr. Homer's epic about Odysseus and his encounters with both natural and divine forces on the ten-year voyage home to Ithaca - and his beloved wife, Penelope - after the Trojan War. (see The Iliad[/i) Gargantua and Pantagruel François Rabelais, 1532-1553 The classic satirical and ribald tale about the travels of Gargantua and Pantagruel, set in the French countryside. Tom Jones Henry Fielding, 1749 The protagonist, Tom Jones, is introduced to the reader as a ward of a liberal Somerset squire, appearing a generous but slightly wild and reckless boy. Misfortune, followed by many spirited adventures as he travels to London to seek his fortune, teach Tom wisdom to go with his good-heartedness. Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1605 / 1615 A comic study of delusion and its consequences; Don Quixote, the old gentleman of La Mancha, takes to the road in search of adventure and remains undaunted in the face of repeated disaster. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne, 1759-1767 Part novel, part digression, this gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters. The Bays Are Sere Edouard Dujardin, 1888 The first novel written entirely in interior monologue or stream of consciousness. For a long time its impact was dormant, until James Joyce read it in 1903 and subsequently revealed its influence upon him. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll, 1865 / 1871 The first time, Alice goes chasing after a talking rabbit. The second time she climbs through a mirror. Both times, she ends up in a strange, fantastical world, where everything is entirely different from the world she knows. Ghosts Henrik Ibsen, 1881 Osvald Alving returns home only to discover the truth about the father he respected and the horrific effect his father's debauchery has had on him. Confessions of a Young Man George A. Moore, 1888 A fictionalized autobiographical account of the author's days in Paris. Lieutenant Gustl Arthur Schnitzler, 1901 Written in 1901, twenty years before Ulysses, this Austrian novella is a very early example of the literary stream of consciousness technique. Indeed, Joyce acknowledged his debt to this story. | BOOKS BY JAMES JOYCE: Ulysses 1922 Stylistically varied Homer-parody about the Dublin everyman Leopold Bloom, who emerges as surrogate father to Stephen Dedalus on the day his wife Molly sleeps with another man. | WHAT TO READ AFTER ULYSSES? MODERNISM AND THE CITY Herzog Saul Bellow, 1964 Professor-in-crisis comments on modern life in New York and Chicago. Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos, 1925 New York City emerges from fast-paced montage of interconnected lives. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf, 1925 A day in the life of a London society lady - in streams of consciousness. Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Döblin, 1929 A grubby Don Quixote struggles to survive in 1920s Berlin. NOVELS DIRECTLY INFLUENCED BY JAMES JOYCE Zeno's Conscience Italo Svevo, 1923 At the suggestion of his psychiatrist, a man looks back over his life and (non)sanity. Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry, 1947 The last day in the life of an alcholic consul in Mexico. Malone Dies Samuel Beckett, 1951 Interior monologue of a lonely, dying man with a sense of gallows humor. [Meneer Visser's hellevaart] S. Vestdijk, 1936 A financially dependent old man sets out to torment those even less fortunate than himself. OTHER MODERNIST MASTERPIECES Invisible Man Ralph Ellison, 1952 Disturbing adventure story about a black man in prewar America. Chapel Road Louis Paul Boon, 1953 Kaleidoscopic collage novel about Ondineke, who wants to get ahead in the world. The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner, 1929 Decline of a Mississippi family in stylistic jigsaw. | |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1914-1915 The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest of identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of his family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a testament to the artist's "eternal imagination". | |||
| Dubliners 1914 Fifteen stories about ordinary people, trapped in their everyday lives. | |||
| Finnegans Wake 1939 Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book that participates in the re-reading of Irish history that was part of the revival of the early 20th century. | |||
| Stephen Hero 1944 (posthumous) 'posthumous' Part of the first (less experimental) draft of A Portrait of the Artist | |||
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