Презентация на тему James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941)

Joyce was
an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one
of

His complete oeuvre also includes three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters.

was born on 2 February 1882 to John Stanislaus Joyce

He was baptised in the nearby
St. Joseph's Church in Terenure
on 5 February by Rev. John O'Mulloy.

He was the eldest of ten surviving children; two of his siblings died of typhoid.

education at 
Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit 
boarding school near Clane in 1888

On 1904 he met Nora Barnacle, a young woman from Connemara, who was working as a chambermaid. They first stepped out together, an event which would be commemorated by providing the date for the action of Ulysses.

went into self-imposed exile, moving first to Zurich, where he

Joyce's statue in Trieste 

 It turned out that the English agent had been swindled, but the director of the school sent him on to Trieste

of his students were conscripted in Trieste for World

The so-called James-Joyce-Kanzel
(plateau) at the confluence of the Sihl
and Limmat rivers in Zurich where
Joyce loved to relax 

There, he met one of his most enduring and important friends, Frank Budgen, whose opinion Joyce constantly sought through the writing of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.

in 1920 at an invitation from Ezra Pound, supposedly

On 11 January 1941, he underwent surgery for a perforated ulcer. The following day he fell into a coma. He awoke at 2 a.m. on 13 January 1941, and asked for a nurse to call his wife and son before losing consciousness again. They were still on their way when he died 15 minutes later.

an essential element of his writings, and provide all

Major works

As he was completing work on Dubliners in 1906, Joyce considered adding another story featuring a Jewish advertising canvasser called Leopold Bloom under the title Ulysses.