Gente di Dublino

by James Joyce

Overview

Cura e traduzione di Marina Emo CapodilistaEdizione integraleCronache della paralisi spirituale, politica e sociale di una città, i quindici racconti che compongono Gente di Dublino, primo grande esito narrativo di Joyce e opera fondamentale della letteratura europea contemporanea, sono lo specchio di un’Irlanda avvilita, frustrata, delusa: prigionieri della noia, dell’angoscia, dell’atrofia dilagante, impantanati nell’accidia più bieca, inariditi nell’animo e nei sentimenti, schiacciati da un ristagno generale che toglie ogni energia e impedisce l’azione, i protagonisti di queste storie apparentemente banali, di questi casi quotidiani privi di rilievo, di questi meccanismi consueti del comportamento umano tentano invano di fuggire da una patetica, disperata immobilità. Spogliando il racconto breve degli ultimi orpelli romantici con il suo realismo minuzioso ed essenziale, Joyce contribuì con quest’opera a conferirgli statura artistica e a farne il genere letterario più moderno.«Attraversò rapidamente lo stretto vicolo di Temple Bar, borbottando fra sé che potevano tutti andare all’inferno, tanto lui avrebbe passato una bella serata.» James Joycenacque il 2 febbraio 1882 a Rathgar, sobborgo di Dublino. Fece i suoi primi studi presso i gesuiti e nel 1898 si iscrisse allo University College di Dublino, dove si laureò nel 1902. Nel 1904 si trasferì a Trieste dove in breve divenne amico di intellettuali e scrittori, tra i quali Italo Svevo. Dopo lo scoppio della prima guerra mondiale si trasferì a Zurigo e poi a Parigi, per tornare di nuovo nella città svizzera poco prima della sua morte, avvenuta il 13 gennaio 1941. Autore di un capolavoro ancora oggi unico nel suo genere come l’Ulisse, è forse lo scrittore che più d’ogni altro ha contribuito alla nascita della letteratura moderna. Nella collana GTE la Newton Compton ha pubblicato Ritratto dell’artista da giovane e Gente di Dublino.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788854125940
Publisher:	Newton Compton Editori
Publication date:	06/20/2011
Series:	eNewton Classici
Sold by:	Newton Compton
Format:	eBook
File size:	382 KB
Language:	Italian

About the Author

James Joyce was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. He was the oldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. Nonetheless, he was educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College, Dublin, where he gave proof of his extraordinary talent.

In 1902, following his graduation, he went to Paris, thinking he might attend medical school there, but he soon gave up attending lectures and devoted himself to writing poems and prose sketches, and formulating an "aesthetic system'." Recalled to Dublin in April 1903 because of the fatal illness of his mother, he circled slowly towards his literary career. During the summer of 1904 he met a young woman from Galway, Nora Barnacle, and persuaded her to go with him to the Continent, where he planned to teach English.The young couple spent a few months in Pola (now in Yugoslavia), then in 1905 moved to Trieste, where, except for seven months in Rome and three trips to Dublin, they lived until June 1915. They had two children, a son and a daughter. His first book, the poems of Chamber Music, was published in London in 1907, and Dubliners, a book of stories, in 1914. Italy's entrance into the First World War obliged Joyce to move to Zürich, where he remained until 1919. During this period he published A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Exiles, a play (1918).

After a brief return to Trieste following the armistice, Joyce determined to move to Paris so as to arrange more easily for the publication of Ulysses, a book which he had been working on since 1914. It was, in fact, published on his birthday in Paris, in 1922, and brought him international fame. The same year he began work on Finnegan's Wake, and though much harassed by eye troubles, and deeply affected by his daughter's mental illness, he completed and published that book in 1939. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he went to live in Unoccupied France, then managed to secure permission in December 1940 to return to Zürich. Joyce died there six weeks later, on 13 January 1941, and was buried in the Fluntern Cemetery.

Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA).

Date of Birth:

February 2, 1882

Date of Death:

January 13, 1941

Place of Birth:

Dublin, Ireland

Place of Death:

Zurich, Switzerland

Education:

B.A., University College, Dublin, 1902

Website:

http://www.jamesjoyce.ie