James Joyce wrote modernist fiction that transformed ordinary Dublin life through experiments with language, perspective and narrative form. Dubliners collects stories about paralysis, family, work and missed possibilities across different parts of the city, ending with 'The Dead'. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man follows Stephen Dedalus from childhood towards artistic independence, while Ulysses compresses a wide range of styles and voices into one day in Dublin as Leopold Bloom and Stephen move through the city. Finnegans Wake pushes linguistic experimentation much further into dream logic, multilingual puns and dense wordplay. Joyce's work ranges from accessible short fiction to some of the most demanding modernist prose, fitting Irish literature, stream-of-consciousness fiction and experimental classics. Read more Less
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