Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf Editions. Ulysses. JamesTitle. Joyce. Author. Open Contents James Joyce. Ulysses. a slide into poverty for the family mainly due to John’s drinking and About the author general mismanagement. John Stanislaus Joyce was the model for the character of Simon Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, as well as of the narrator’s uncle in several stories in Dubliners. Joyce was initially educated by Jesuits, originally at Clongowes Wood James Augustine Aloysius Joyce College, a boarding school in County Kildare which he entered in 1888 (February 2, 1882 - January 13, 1941) but had to leave in 1892 when his father could no longer pay the fees. was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, Joyce then studied at home and briefly at the Christian Brothers school in and is widely considered one of the North Richmond Street before he was offered a place in the Jesuit’s most significant writers of the 20th Dublin school, Belvedere College in 1893. The offer was made at least century. He is best known for his short partly in the hope that he would prove to have a vocation and join the story collection Dubliners (1914), and Jesuits himself. He rejected Catholicism by the age of 16. However, the for his novels A Portrait of the Artist as a philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas remained a strong influence on him Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and throughout his life. Finnegans Wake (1939). He enrolled at University College Dublin in 1898. He studied modern languages, specifically English, French and Italian. He also became active Together with Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson, he is credited in theatrical and literary circles in the city. His review article Ibsen’s New with the development of the stream of consciousness technique in which the Drama was published in 1900 and resulted in a letter of thanks from the same weight is given to both the internal world of the mind and the Norwegian dramatist. He wrote a number of other articles and at least external world of events and circumstances as factors shaping the actions two lost plays during this period. and views of fictional characters. Joyce made his first visit to Paris in 1902 to be part of the growing Although most of his adult life was spent outside the country, Joyce’s artist movement in Montparnasse and Montmartre at the time. He left Irish experiences are essential to his writings, and provide all of the settings the city in 1903 to return to Ireland as his mother was dying. He met for his fiction and much of their subject matter. His fictional universe is Nora Barnacle, a young woman from County Galway who was working as firmly rooted in Dublin and is peopled by his family life and the events and a chambermaid, the next spring, and on June 16 they went on their first friends (and enemies) from his school and college days. In this, he became date (which would give a date for the action of Ulysses). Joyce bummed both one of the most cosmopolitan and one of the most local of all the around Dublin for some time longer, drinking heavily, and took up with great English language modernists. medical student Oliver St John Gogarty, who formed the basis for Buck James Joyce was born into a well-off Catholic family in the Dublin Mulligan in Ulysses. After staying in Gogarty’s Martello Tower for six suburb of Rathgar. His family, who originally came from Cork, were nights he left following an altercation, and went out and got drunk in a wealthy merchants. In 1887, his father, John Stanislaus Joyce, was whorehouse and got into a fight, from which he was rescued by his father’s appointed rate collector by Dublin Corporation and the family were able acquaintance Alfred Hunter, an Irish Jew who thus loosely formed the to move to the fashionable new suburb of Bray. basis of Leopold Bloom, the hero of Ulysses. In 1891, he wrote a poem, Et Tu Healy, on the death of Charles Shortly thereafter, he eloped with Nora Barnacle. The pair went into Stewart Parnell. His father had it printed and even sent a copy to the “exile” (his only play was titled Exiles), moving first to Pola and then Vatican library. In November of that same year, John Joyce was entered in Trieste in Austria-Hungary to teach English. Joyce would spend most of Stubbs Gazette (an official register of bankrupts) and suspended from the rest of his life on the Continent. He returned to Paris in 1920 and, work. In 1893 he was dismissed with a pension. This was the beginning of Contents James Joyce. Ulysses. apart from two visits to Ireland, would remain there for the next twenty Finnegans Wake is the source of the physicist’s word “quark”, the name of years until just before his death in 1941. In Paris, Maria and Eugene Jolas one of the main kinds of elementary particles. The French philosopher nursed Joyce during his long years of writing Finnegans Wake. Were it not Jacques Derrida has written a book on the use of language in Ulysses, and for their unwavering support, there was a good possibility the book might the American philosopher Donald Davidson has written similarly on never have been finished or published. In their now legendary literary Finnegans Wake in comparison with Lewis Carroll. Argentinian writer magazine “transition,” the Jolas’ published serially various sections of Jorge Luis Borges often drew on Joyce as well. Joyce’s novel under the title Work in Progress. James Joyce died on January 13, 1941 at Zürich, Switzerland and is His Irish experiences are essential to his writings, and provide all of the buried in the Fluntern Cemetery, in Zürich with his wife, Nora. settings for his fiction and much of their subject matter. The early volume The life of Joyce is celebrated annually on June 16, Bloomsday, in of short stories, Dubliners, is a penetrating analysis of the stagnation and Dublin and in an increasing number of cities worldwide. paralysis of Dublin society. The stories incorporate epiphanies, a word used particularly by Joyce, by which he meant a sudden consciousness of the “soul” of a thing. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, largely autobiographical, shows the process of attaining maturity and self-consciousness by a young gifted man. The main character is Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s representation of himself. In this novel some glimpses of Joyce’s later techniques are evident, in the use of interior monologue and in the concern with the psychic rather than external reality. Ulysses In Ulysses, Joyce employs stream of consciousness, parody, jokes, and virtually every other literary technique to present his characters. The action of the novel, which takes place in a single day, June 16, 1904, sets the ancient myth of Ulysses, Penelope and Telemachus in modern Dublin and represents them in the characters of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, parodically contrasted with their lofty models. The book explores various areas of Dublin life, dwelling on its squalor and monotony. Finnegans Wake Joyce’s method of stream of consciousness, literary allusions and free dream associations was pushed to the limit in Finnegans Wake, which abandoned all conventions of plot and character construction, and is written in a peculiar and obscure language, based mainly on complex multi-level puns. (His approach here is similar to, but far more extensive than, that used by Lewis Carroll in “Jabberwocky”.) The view of history propounded in this text is very strongly influenced by Giambattista Vico Joyce’s legacy Joyce’s work has been subject to intense scrutiny by scholars of all types, and he is one of the most noted writers of the twentieth century. Contents James Joyce. Ulysses. Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. Click on a number in the chapter list, or, as 5. you are reading, on one of the numbers at the 6. bottom of the screen to go to the first page of 7. that chapter. 8. 9. Note: The best way to read this ebook is in Full 10. Screen mode: click View, Full Screen to set 11. Adobe Acrobat to Full Screen View. This mode 12. allows you to use Page Down to go to the next 13. page, and affords the best reading view. Press 14. Escape to exit the Full Screen View. 15. 16. 17. 18. Contents James Joyce. Ulysses. 1 Ulysses. —1.— * Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: 1922. — Introibo ad altare Dei. Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely: Bibliographic citation for this ebook: — Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful jesuit! Solemnly he came forward and mounted the round gunrest. He Joyce, James Ulysses. 1922. Coradella Bookshelf Editions. Columbus, faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land Ohio: The Write Direction / Oberon, 2005. and the awaking mountains. Then, catching sight of Stephen Dedalus, he bent towards him and made rapid crosses in the air, gurgling in his throat and shaking his head. Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the ISBN 0-9677361-3-7 NOTICE shaking gurgling face that blessed him, equine in its length, and at the Copyright © 2005 The Write Direction / Oberon.