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Joyces final work, Finnegans Wake, is his masterpiece of the night as Ulysses was of the day. Supreme linguistic virtuosity conjures up the dark underground worlds of sexuality and dream. Joyce undermines traditional storytelling and all official forms of English and confronts the different kinds of betrayal - cultural, political and sexual - he saw at the heart of Irish history. Dazzlingly inventive, with passages of great lyrical beauty and much humour, Finnegans Wake remains one of the most remarkable works of the twentieth century. // );} else { document.writeln( );} //--

Amb Retrat de l'artista adolescent, una novel·la de trets autobiogràfics, James Joyce presenta, d'una manera alhora punyent i divertida, el pas per la crisi de l'adolescència. L'obra es pot llegir co

Concebido como si Dublín fuera una persona, Joyce muestra al mundo su amada y odiada ciudad. Se hace eco de las mezquinas existencias y de las fustraciones de sus protagonistas.

Perhaps Joyce's most personal work, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature's most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus. Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, Joyce evokes Stephen's youth, from his impressionable years as the youngest student at the Clongowed Wood school to the deep religious conflict he experiences at a day school in Dublin, and finally to his college studies where he challenges the conventions of his upbringing and his understanding of faith and intellectual freedom. James Joyce's highly autobiographical novel was first published in the United States in 1916 to immediate acclaim. Ezra Pound accurately predicted that Joyce's book would "remain a permanent part of English literature," while H.G. Wells dubbed it "by far the most important living and convincing picture that exists of an Irish Catholic upbringing." A remarkably rich study of a developing young mind, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man made an indelible mark on literature and confirmed Joyce's reputation as one of the world's greatest and lasting writers.

James Joyce escribiu o primeiro borrador dunha obra chamada Stephen Hero entre 1901 e 1906, pero descontento co resultado volveu a replantexala e escribila. Esta versión foi practicamente destruida por Joyce nun ataque de furia ao saber que fora rexeitada por un editor. Finalmente, de novo escrita, apareceu en 1916 baixo o titulo de A Portrait of the Artist as a young man.Traducion do ingles de Vicente Araguas.

Collíalle a man e ela soubo que lIe dicía algo sobre a pasaxe unha e outra vez. A estación estaba chea de soldados con sacos marróns. A través das portas abertas entreviu a masa negra do barco, atracado no peirao, cos ollos de boi iluminados. Non contestaba nada. Sentia as suas meixelas palidas e frias e, no seu labirinto de desesperacion, pregoulle a Deus que a guiase, que lIe amosase cal era o seu deber. O barco lanzou un longo e tristeiro bufido de serea contra a neboa. Se marchase, maña estaria no mar con Frank, rumbo a Buenos Aires. Xa tiñan as pasaxes. ¿Poderia ainda volverse atras despois de todo o que el fixera por ela? A desesperacion espertoulle nauseas no corpo e continuou movendo os labios nunha fervente e silenciosa ladaiña.