“It is an epic of two races (Israelite—Irish) and at the same time the cycle of the human body as well as a little story of a day (life).”
About 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…