Ulysses Synopsis
Ulysses, written by James Joyce, is a modernist novel published in 1922. Set in Dublin, Ireland, the novel follows the life of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus over the course of one day, June 16th, 1904. Through a stream of consciousness narrative, Joyce explores the inner thoughts and feelings of his characters, as well as the city of Dublin itself. Ulysses is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature, and is widely studied in universities and colleges around the world. James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, and is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Other notable works by Joyce include: Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), and Finnegans Wake (1939).
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About James Joyce
James Joyce was born on 2 February 1882, the eldest of ten surviving children. He was educated by Jesuits at Clogowes Wood College and at Belvedere College (just up the road from the Centre) before going on to University College, then located on St Stephen’s Green, where he studied modern languages. After he graduated from university, Joyce went to Paris, ostensibly to study medicine, and was recalled to Dublin in April 1903 because of the illness and subsequent death of his mother. He stayed in Ireland until 1904, and in June that year he met Nora Barncale, the Galway woman who was to become his partner and later his wife.
Joyce’s last and perhaps most challenging work, Finnegans Wake was published on 4 May 1939. It was immediately listed as “the book of the week” in the UK and the USA. Joyce died at the age of fifty-nine, on 13 January 1941, at 2 a.m., in Schwesterhaus vom Roten Kreuz in Zurich where he and his family had been given asylum . He is buried in Fluntern cemetary, Zurich.
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