James Joyce — a remark

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“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.”

A characteristically sardonic reflection on the difficulties of writing in English. · Letter to Fanny Guillermet, 1918

About James Joyce

James Joyce

2 February 1882–13 January 1941

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, then a prosperous southern suburb of Dublin, and died on 13 January 1941 in Zürich, Switzerland. He is most often called a novelist, and rightly so: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake…

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