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.'
说实话,这本书给我的触动并不是很大。书中主人公立志成为一名艺术家的过程倒给我不少启发: 艺术家的眼光:家庭,宗教(在中国,则为官方说教),性爱都容易使人陷入一种平庸。惟有获得一种获取美感的能力“把普通的生活经历变成具有永恒生命力的光辉的杰作”(P256)的人才有...
评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...
评分原文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...
评分曾经充满豪情壮志地取下书架上的《尤利西斯》,但最终还是灰溜溜的还回去了。乔伊斯在我的心中一直是那么生涩、孤独、狂妄,然后还有一些些失落,至少我不敢那么轻易地靠近他。冲着“艺术家”的名目,花了两天的时间看了这本《一个青年艺术家的画像》,看着一个颖悟的男孩子对...
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.
评分Prufrock or Dedalus? 虽然我的毕业论文被无知的老师忽略了,but Little Stephen is always there.乔伊斯你的英语是穿越窗棂的光和飞扬的尘。我一直觉得安妮霍尔开片伍迪艾伦讲他小时候家里的一个饭局,有点模仿这本书里最前面乔伊斯写家
评分跟这本比起来,hesse的steppenwolf就是渣啊。。乔伊斯与福克纳两座大山是给我许多对英语文学自信力的。虽然不小心又被带入了,但是内心又觉得,有些部分真的可以写进小说里么。。。置身于主人公的语境下,我大概是没有那样的独立与勇气的,也让我重新对流亡有了更深的认识。如果说这本书讲的是作为唤醒的艺术的话,这本书本身对于我来说就是唤醒。我的vocation又是什么呢?
评分近乎意识流的东西除了从头到尾跟着节奏让自己的意识也跟着走一番之外,没有了解小说的第二个途径了,可到了最后一页的时候又有点恍然若失,不知道这是自己的心情呢还是Stephan的意识了。会做梦的作家已经很少了。造梦的作家已经很少了。
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