James Joyce, the twentieth century’s most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father’s wastrel behavior. After receiving a rigorous Jesuit education, twenty-year-old Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin in 1902 to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. On one trip back to Ireland, he fell in love with the now famous Nora Barnacle on June 16, the day he later chose as “Bloomsday” in his novel Ulysses. Nara was an uneducated Galway girl who became his lifelong companion an the mother of his two children. In debt and drinking heavily, Joyce lived for thirty-six years on the Continent, supporting himself first by teaching jobs, then trough the patronage of Mrs. Harold McCormick (Edith Rockerfeller) and the English feminist and editor Harriet Shaw Weaver. His writings include Chamber music (1907), Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Exiles (1918), Ulysses (1922), Poems Penyeach (1927), Finnegans Wake (1939), and an early draft of A Portrait of a Young Man, Stephan Hero (1944). Ulysses required seven years to complete, and his masterpiece, Finnegans Wake, took seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.
Published in 1916, James Joyce's semiautobiographical tale of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is a coming-of-age story like no other. A bold, innovative experiment with both language and structure, the work has exerted a lasting influence on the contemporary novel.
'Joyce dissolved mechanism in literature as effectively as Einstein destroyed it in physics,' wrote Alfred Kazin. 'He showed that the material of fiction could rest upon as tense a distribution and as delicate a balance of its parts as any poem. Joyce's passion for form, in fact, is the secret of his progress as a novelist. He sought to bring the largest possible quantity of human life under the discipline of the observing mind, and the mark of his success is that he gave an epic form to what remains invisible to most novelists.... Joyce means many things to different people; for me his importance has always been primarily a moral one. He was, perhaps, the last man in Europe who wrote as if art were worth a human life.... By living for his art he may yet have given others a belief in art worth living for.'
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這是值得讀一輩子的小說,每次讀後都覺得已經讀懂瞭,可下一次看,卻發現,其實依然不太懂。 本書是《尤利西斯》前傳,但形式沒那麼叛逆,所以有點悶,與中國讀者在情感上,多少有些隔閡,我們不太能和主人公同悲同喜。 因為,我們眼中的世界是“確定性”的,我們先天就承認...
評分說實話,這本書給我的觸動並不是很大。書中主人公立誌成為一名藝術傢的過程倒給我不少啓發: 藝術傢的眼光:傢庭,宗教(在中國,則為官方說教),性愛都容易使人陷入一種平庸。惟有獲得一種獲取美感的能力“把普通的生活經曆變成具有永恒生命力的光輝的傑作”(P256)的人纔有...
評分一個月左右讀完,當然不是一直讀,偶爾讀,最澀記錄是一個多小時隻盯著一頁的一段話的幾個詞匯看,總之非常傷神經瞭,喬伊斯說過,他就想傷人。不能說是純文本閱讀,這目前被歸為文學流派中意識流的代錶作品所産生的藝術感覺遠超於所定義的。可以說,我們先不急著對號入座,這...
評分我時常是這樣的。總會在某個時期或者某一天不經意的一瞬間形成一種心理狀態或者某種慣性的自啓動潛意識模式,它在未來很長一段時間一直跟著我,時隱時現。 大約在讀小學時的某天傍晚,夕陽盡情的揮灑著餘暉,樹木,河流,房子,腳下的小路都是金黃金黃的,空氣中彌漫的塵土變...
評分讀書|1925.詹姆斯·喬伊斯《一個青年藝術傢的畫像》 喜歡他那猶如一個人的喃喃自語般的敘述。從記事兒的兒時開始。在緩緩的水流中,將思想的河床衝洗的清晰明瞭。猶如山裏的一股清泉。甘甜。還有點涼。也如同攀登一座沒有被石頭鋪砌而成直通山頂的道路的深山一樣。走著走著,一...
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讀過不止一次。不過裏麵關於聲音圖像和文字之間的關係,小邪同學提齣來過,以前沒有注意到過,需要再讀。
評分比想象中的難讀,但又和想象有點相似又有點不同的那樣好看。Stephen's father's attributes. —A medical student, an oarsman, a tenor, an amateur actor, a shouting politician, a small landlord, a small investor, a drinker, a good fellow, a story-teller, somebody's secretary, something in a distillery, a tax-gatherer, a bankrupt and at present a praiser of his own past.
評分接觸意識流的開始。
評分比想象中的難讀,但又和想象有點相似又有點不同的那樣好看。Stephen's father's attributes. —A medical student, an oarsman, a tenor, an amateur actor, a shouting politician, a small landlord, a small investor, a drinker, a good fellow, a story-teller, somebody's secretary, something in a distillery, a tax-gatherer, a bankrupt and at present a praiser of his own past.
評分喬伊斯試圖模擬人思考的過程,與《都柏林人》中有所指的豐富細節不同。"portraits"中的各種感官、思考細節,可說其有所指,也可說其沒有。實在是“Vague words for a vague emotion”。很佩服喬伊斯對於自己文學天纔的剋製和精確。
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