A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners - James Joyce [1]
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners
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JAMES JOYCE
Irish novelist James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Dublin. The eldest of ten children, James spent his early years in a solvent, middle-class Catholic household. At age six, he enrolled in prestigious Clongowes Wood College, but three years later his father’s spending habits and failed investments had depleted the family’s modest fortune. James was taken out of the costly Jesuit school, and the family was forced into more affordable housing, ultimately moving to a poor neighborhood on Dublin’s south side. Following a brief enrollment in a Christian Brothers school for the Irish poor, James was admitted, without fees, to another Jesuit school, Belevedere College. In the fall of 1898, he entered University College Dublin, where he studied languages, read widely, and was influenced by Yeats, Thomas Aquinas, and, especially, the plays of Henrik Ibsen. A devout Catholic in his youth, Joyce would break with the Church during his years at University College. In 1900 he published his first essay, a review of Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken, in the London journal the Fortnightly Review.
After graduation in 1902, Joyce left Ireland for Paris, supposedly to study medicine. Instead, he worked as a teacher and journalist and spent much of his time in the library. He returned to Ireland in April 1903 to visit his dying mother. The following year, he fell in love with an uneducated girl from Galway, Nora Barnacle, who would become his lifelong companion and the inspiration for the character Molly Bloom in his great novel Ulysses (1922). (Joyce would later immortalize the day they met, June 16, as Bloomsday—the day on which Ulysses takes place.) During this time he began work on an early version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, entitled Stephen Hero. He also began writing, under the nom de plume Stephen Dedalus, the stories that would later appear as Dubliners. Joyce persuaded Nora to move to the Continent, and after some misadventures and displacement, in 1905 the couple settled in Trieste, where they would remain for fifteen years. Scarcity of money did not affect Joyce’s productivity: He published a book of poetry, Chamber Music (1907), and completed Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), the play Exiles (1918), and large passages of Ulysses. The American poet Ezra Pound sponsored publication of his work and introduced him