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1882–1941
James Joyce
Dublin exile who turned one ordinary day and one artist’s youth into laboratories for the English sentence.
Pushed stream of consciousness, mythic parallel, and linguistic play to a new limit.
Primary works
Novel · 1922
Ulysses
James Joyce
One Dublin day—16 June 1904—maps the Odyssey onto advertising, grief, and a kitchen. Style changes with the hour.
Modernist epic
Novel · 1916
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Stephen Dedalus grows from infant sensation to exile, shedding church and nation for a vocation of making. The prose grows up with him.
Künstlerroman