FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JAMES JOYCE
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his only stories about Ireland contained mythological creatures, not real people.
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none of his stories were even about Ireland.
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he did not stay in Ireland his whole life, later living in Zurich, Switzerland, Rome, Italy, and Paris, France.
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Joyce thought Ireland’s people were spoiled and pig-headed.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Joyce saw these elements of Irish life as ‘nets’ designed to trap him, but he was determined not to allow himself to be trapped. As he put it: When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion.
Detailed explanation-2: -His mother was dead, his father was hopeless and there was very little to keep him and Nora in Dublin. But it was not just these personal things that drove Joyce into exile. It was also the religious, political and cultural world of Dublin and Ireland that drove him away. It is worth looking at each of these in turn.
Detailed explanation-3: -Joyce’s intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of his country and he chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to him the centre of paralysis.
Detailed explanation-4: -The work Joyce is most famous for, Ulysses, was published in 1922. The novel, taking place entirely on June 16, 1904 (now known as Bloomsday), is a dissection of the mind of Leopold Bloom as he wanders about Dublin.