James Joyce

James Joyce

James Joyce was an Irish novelist and short story writer who spent most of his adult life in voluntary exile in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris — while writing obsessively about Dublin. Dubliners (1914) and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) established him as a major realist. Ulysses (1922) reinvented what a novel could do. Finnegans Wake (1939) reinvented what language could do. He is the central figure of literary modernism.