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James Joyce

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James Joyce (1882–1941) was an Irish modernist writer whose innovations in stream of consciousness reshaped the novel. His major works include Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake.

Born in Dublin in 1882 and died in Zurich in 1941. A central figure of literary modernism, Joyce pioneered interior monologue and radical narrative forms. June 16, 1904—Bloomsday—commemorates the events of Ulysses.

Five enthusiastic reviews orbit Joyce’s big four: Dubliners, Portrait/Dedalus, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. Themes include interior monologue, Dublin’s paralysis, and modernist reinvention of the novel. Reviewers praise Joyce’s realism beneath artifice, the deathly grip of bourgeois values, and Molly Bloom’s ecstatic Yes. Overall mood: reverent, awed, and a bit giddy.

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