James Joyce
Irish · 1882–1941
James Joyce was an Irish modernist novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. His major works — the short story collection Dubliners, the semi-autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and the encyclopedic Ulysses — pioneered techniques like free indirect discourse and stream of consciousness, and pushed the formal possibilities of the novel further with the dream-language experiment of Finnegans Wake. Born in Dublin, he spent most of his adult life in self-imposed exile on the Continent, but Dublin remained the obsessive setting of nearly everything he wrote.
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Fleeting mentions
- 67. Middlemarch, part 1: A wish-fulfilment fantasy for spergy scholars
- 54. Crashing out of Gravity's Rainbow: A postmortem of our first DNF
- 49. C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures: the original stemcels vs shape rotators beef
- 46. Anna Karenina FINALE: Revenge of the Reddit Atheists
- 43. One Hundred Years of Solitude: The optimal amount of incest is non-zero
- 36. Emily Wilson's The Odyssey, part 1: Bronze age perversion
- 29. Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle: Autofiction and autofellation
- 15. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: The One TRUE Interpretation
- 11. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 3: Was David Foster Wallace a hideous man?
- 6. Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, part 1: Skill issue