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James Joyce (1882–1941)

Joyce left Dublin as a young man and spent the rest of his life writing about it. Dubliners captures the city in precise, devastating short stories. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man traces a mind discovering itself. Ulysses remade the novel entirely, turning a single day in Dublin into something approaching the complete record of a human consciousness. He had bad eyesight, chronic money problems, and an unshakeable conviction that ordinary life contained everything worth writing about.

Concepts

agency, authenticity, escape, freedom, love, meaning, oppression, praxis, rebellion

Quotes (6)

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the port...” — Ulysses (1922)
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” — Ulysses (1922)
“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of expe...” — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself m...” — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
“Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible ...” — Stephen Hero (1944)
“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.” — Ulysses (1922)