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| User: | james_joyce (3564200)
Portrait of the artist as a lecherous old man
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| Name: | james_joyce |
| Location: | Dublin, Ireland |
| Birthdate: | 02-02 |
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| james_joyce | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| Bio: | I was born at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin, on 2 February 1882. my father invested unwisely, and the family's fortunes declined steadily. I graduated from University College, Dublin, in 1902 which sucked becuase my dad had no money, and no money wasn't a lot back then; I briefly studied medicine in Paris, but it was gay and my mother's impending death brought me back to Dublin. In 1904, I began Stephen Hero, which i later re-worked as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I also met Nora Barnacle, a chambermaid, and on 16 June 1904 we went walking at Ringsend, at the Liffey's mouth; I later chose that date for the events recorded in Ulysses. She was hot. Having briefly shared a Martello tower at Sandycove, Co Dublin, with Oliver StJohn Gogarty, I sailed from Dublin with Nora in October 1904. I found work in a language school in Trieste. It was lame, but they knew how to party. In 1909, I made two trips to Dublin, to arrange publication of Dubliners, and to open a short-lived cinema, which bombed. My last visit was in 1912, when I failed to overcome my publisher's doubts about Dubliners. He was an ass-hat. In 1914 the book was published in England, and A Portrait was serialised in a London magazine. With the outbreak of World War I, I moved to Zurich in neutral Switzerland, which was cool, because it was neutral, where in 1917 i underwent the first of many operations for glaucoma. Ulysses, my masterpiece, was serialised in New York in 1918-20, but was eventually halted by a court action cuz i said, "Fuck" a lot. I returned to Trieste in 1919, then moved to Paris, where in 1922 Ulysses was published by Sylvia Beach, owner of a celebrated bookshop. *(and a terrific lay!)* Its portrait of Dublin, and of the Jewish advertisement canvasser Leopold Bloom, revolutionised the novel with its 'stream of consciousness' technique; it was not published in Britain until 1936. In 1923, i began the almost impenetrable Finnegans Wake, which was published in 1939. Nora and I finally married in 1931, to the disappointment of my many suitorettes, and in 1940 returned to Zurich, where I died on 13 January 1941.
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| Memories: | 2 entries |
| Interests: | 42: adventures, and yet..., beaches, books, canes, dublin, dubliners, eye patches, fiction, finnegans wake, food, frivolity, geoff george, hats, homer, ireland, john cusack, june 16 1904, languages, letters, loves old sweet song, mania, masturbation, medicine, met him pike hoses, moorish walls, nora, not bobby evers, old timey irish music, paperback rhino, parallax, paris, public space one, sailing, shakespeare, the dead, the odyssey, the transmigration of souls, trieste, ulysses, yes, zurich |
| Schools: | None listed |
| Friends: |  | 12: | andalusiandog, anightsofrozen, bombur, bostezar, calaquende, entrouverte, misskaitlin, moriquende, ohbusiness, peterlake, thegreatmissjj, zaporizhiansich |  | 2: | j_joyce, rejoycer |
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| Friend of: | 11: andalusiandog, anightsofrozen, bombur, bostezar, calaquende, entrouverte, misskaitlin, ohbusiness, peterlake, thegreatmissjj, zaporizhiansich |
| Member of: | 1: j_joyce |
| Account type: | Basic Account |
