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"they lived, they laughed, they loved and they left."

Estudies

James Joyce

James Augustin Aloysius Joyce was born in Dublín in the 1882, and died in zurich in the 1941. He is worldwide known for being one of the most important and influential writers of the XX century. Acclaimed by his masterpiece "Ulises" and his controvertial next novel called "Finnegans wake".

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Masterpieces

Facts about James Joyce:

Joyce's writing speed has been calculated at just 90 words a day, based on the 8 years it took for him to write the 265,000 words in Ulysses. He was fluent in as many as 13 languages, including Italian, French, German, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Greek, Arabic, and Sanskrit. He only learned Norwegian so he could read the works of playwright Henrik Ibsen in their original Lannguage

In addition to suffering from a pronounced fear of dogs, and a fear of thunder and lightning (he wrote a 100-page essay about that), Joyce suffered from major problems with his eyes. He has 12 eye surgeries overall, and by middle age he wore a patch over one eye with eyeglasses and wrote on huge sheets of paper with a red crayon, just so he could see what he’d scribbled down.

James Joyce estudies

In 1898 he began studying at University College Dublin, graduating in modern languages ​​in 1902. After graduating, Joyce began studying medicine, first attending the Faculty of Medicine at the Catholic University of Dublin, followed by the École de Médecine. from Paris.

James Joyce wore an eyepatch to save his vision. Joyce had about a dozen eye surgeries, every one of them performed without general anesthetic. He lay in dark rooms for days or weeks at a time, and his post-surgical eye patches became his trademark.

Masterpieces of James Joyce

  • Dubliners (1942)
  • A portrait of the artist as a young man (1916)
  • Ulysses (1922)
  • Finnegans wake (1939)