title: The Portable James Joyce
author:  James Joyce 
description: <b>James Joyce</b>, the twentieth centurys 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 fathers 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<i>Ulysses.</i>Nora was an uneducated Galway girl who became his lifelong companion and the mother of his two children. In debt and drinking heavily, Joyce lived for 36 years on the Continent, supporting himself first by teaching jobs, then through the patronage of Mrs. Harold McCormick (Edith Rockerfeller) and the English feminist and editor Harriet Shaw Weaver. His writings include<i>Chamber Music</i>(1907),<i>Dubliners</i>(1914),<i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i>(1916),<i>Exiles</i>(1918),<i>Ulysses</i>(1922),<i>Pomes Penyeach</i>(1927),<i>Finnegan's Wake</i>(1939), and an early draft of<i>A Portrait of a Young Man, Stephan Hero</i>(1944).<i>Ulysses</i>required seven years to complete, and his masterpiece,<i>Finnegan's Wake,</i>took seventeen. Both works revolutionized the form, structure, and content of the novel. Joyce died in Zurich in 1941.<br /><br /><b>Harry Levin</b> (19121994), literary critic and modernist literature scholar, graduated from Harvard University and began teaching there some years later. In 1960 he became the Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard and retired in 1983.
zlib_text: JAMES JOYCE 
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  James Joyce, age about 30, in Trieste, circa 1912. 
  
  JAMES JOYCE 
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  Edited, translated 
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  LOUIS BERRONE 
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  Random House New York 
  
  Copyright © 1977 
  by Trustees of the James Joyce Estate 
  Editing and notes, Copyright© 1977 by Louis Berrone 
  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright 
  Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., 
  New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of 
  Canada Limited, Toronto. 
  Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data 
  Joyce, James, 1882-1941. 
  James Joyce in Padua. 
  Bibliography: p. 
  I. Berrone, Louis. II. Title. 
  PR6019.09A23 
  823'.9'12 
  77-6027 
  ISBN o-394-4099o-6 
  DESIGN BY LILLY LANGOTSKY 
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  This book is for my wife 
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