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James Joyce, The Poetless Poem
One great part of every human existence is passed
in a state that cannot be rendered sensible
by the use of wideawake language,
cutanddry grammar and
goahead plot.
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce) (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark novel which perfected his stream of consciousness technique and combined nearly every literary device available in a modern re-telling of The Odyssey. Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939), and his complete oeuvre includes three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters.
Joyce was born to a lower-middle class family in Dublin, where he excelled as a student at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, then at University College, Dublin. In his early twenties he emigrated permanently to continental Europe, living in Trieste, Paris and Zurich. Though most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce's fictional universe does not extend beyond Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there; Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of Ulysses he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, “For myself, I always write about Dublin, because 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 contained the universal.”
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Joyce in Zurich, c. 1918
Poems published in Translatum:
- The Poetless Poem (https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=2925.msg17432#msg17432)
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Joyce wrote to Harriet Shaw Weaver,
"One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar, and goahead plot" (letter dated Nov. 24, 1926; Letters 3:146; Selected Letters 318).
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