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The works of James Joyce reveal the love and hate relationship that the writer had with his homeland, Ireland. Dublin also left and never returned, the emotional and spiritual bond with his hometown was never completely broken. Dublin is not only the place where his stories are set, but it is a character like the other characters, it is the representation of a state of mind. We see the protagonists of his novels wandering around the city in search of something that could change their lives, but without success because Dublin for Joyce was the center of paralysis, where no spiritual growth was possible.
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Joyce developed new narrative techniques to represent the spontaneous flow of characters' deepest thoughts before they are logically ordered. Since there was no longer a division between past and present, it was no longer necessary to tell the stories in chronological order, so the plot of a novel could unfold over the course of a day, as happens in James Joyce's novels which usually start with from the analysis of a particular moment in the life of a character. Joyce uses various narrative techniques to express what is happening in the mind of a character: the epiphany, i.e. a moment of improvised spiritual revelation caused by an object or an everyday event, through which the character expresses his thoughts without a logical sequence, without punctuation , without following the grammatical rules and without the mediation of a narrator, just to reflect the chaos of the human mind..
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James Joyce about Ulysses
I have put so many riddles and brainteasers in it that it will keep professors busy for ages wondering what I meant, and that is the only way to ensure one's immortality.
James Joyce about Dublino
Find my dark words. Darkness is in your soul, don't you think?
James Joyce about the life
Art must reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences.
Each word is a bridge to other words, often according to an associative and musical principle. Translating it is a real effort for anyone because that of Ulysses was not precisely a language, it was a foreign language, which took in echoes of all kinds, with a more expanded lexicon than all known texts. This is why it is not important to understand everything: it is important to hear a sound that becomes more recognizable
It is the biography of a city, Dublin is dissected through characters that Joyce had known. Joyce talks about himself and the life he had lived in Dublin. The central theme of the work is the paralysis in which he sees the city and its inhabitants immersed. A moral paralysis, the difficulty of changing, of coming out of a structured reality which is what led him to move away from the city, to flee from it. Paralysis and escape are the central elements of the Dubliners.
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