James joyce

‘James Joyce is a living argument in favour of my contention that it was a mistake to establish a separate university for the aborigines of this island — for the corner boys who spit into the Liffey.”

Molly Bloom's closing soliloquy...and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes…

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James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882 and died on January 13, 1941. Joyce is most famous for his poem Ulysses which was published in 1922. It is said that the poem is supposed parallel some of the episodes in the Odyssey. He is also known to always mention something about Dublin.

James Joyce by Jacques-Emile Blanche 1935... Terrible photo of painting... Really great in person at the national Portrait Gallery in London.

Louis Menand writes on how the materials of James Joyce’s fiction are found objects, “the reality of experience,” as Stephen Dedalus puts it, in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.”

James Joyce

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