James Joyce — a remark

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“One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.”

Joyce explains why ordinary narrative language cannot capture the whole of human experience. · Letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver, 24 November 1926

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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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