James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings and poet. He contributed afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings and important authors of the 20th century.

Joyce is afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings styles, perhaps most prominent afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings these the stream of consciousness technique he utilised. Other well-known works are the short-story afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings Dubliners (1914), and the afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings include three books of poetry, a play, afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings journalism and his published letters.

Joyce was born in Dublin into a middle-class family on the way afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings. A brilliant student, he excelled afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings the chaotic family life imposed by his father's alcoholism and afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin.

In 1904, in his early twenties, Joyce emigrated permanently to afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings Europe with his partner (and later wife) Nora Barnacle. They lived in Trieste, Paris and Zurich. Though afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce's afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings universe centres on Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings family members, enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses in afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings is set with precision in the afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings and alleyways of the city. Shortly afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings the publication of Ulysses, he elucidated this afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings somewhat, saying, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is afteramongatbecausebestcollectioncontainedcontinentaldespitedownfictionalinfluentialliterarymostnovelistnovelsoccasionalparticularpreoccupationresemblestreetstounpredictablewhichwritings the universal."
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