Ritratto dell'artista da giovane

by James Joyce

Overview

Cura e traduzione di Marina Emo Capodilista
Introduzione di Mario Praz
Edizione integrale

Il Ritratto dell’artista da giovane è la storia di una mente creativa: un’educazione intellettuale, insomma, piuttosto che sentimentale. Attingendo ampiamente alla propria biografia, Joyce racconta, in uno stile mirabile per inventiva e fantasia, la formazione della personalità del giovane protagonista Stephen Dedalus, il suo alter ego, dall’infanzia nel collegio gesuita alla scoperta della vocazione per l’Arte. Sembra proprio che parli Joyce per bocca di Dedalus, quando dice: «Tenterò di esprimere me stesso in qualche modo di vita o di arte, quanto più potrò liberamente e integralmente, adoperando per difendermi le sole armi che mi concedo di usare: il silenzio, l’esilio e l’astuzia». Un capolavoro della letteratura, dall’autore dell’Ulisse.

«L’anima dapprima nasce», dise ambiguamente, «in quei momenti di cui ti ho parlato. Ha una nascita lenta e oscura, più misteriosa della nascita del corpo. Quando nasce l’anima di un uomo in questo paese, le vengono gettate reti per impedirle di fuggire. Mi parli di nazionalità, di lingua, di religione. Io cercherò di sfuggire a quelle reti».



James Joyce

nasce a Dublino il 2 febbraio del 1882. Nel 1904 abbandona l’Irlanda e parte con la compagna Nora per l’Europa. Vivranno a Pola, Trieste, Roma, Parigi e Zurigo. La prima opera narrativa, Gente di Dublino, esce nel 1914, stesso anno in cui vede la pubblicazione il romanzo autobiografico Dedalus. Ulisse è del 1922 – ma in America sarà assolto dall’accusa di oscenità solo nel 1933. Nel 1939 viene pubblicata la sua opera più visionaria, La veglia di Finnegan. Joyce muore a Zurigo il 13 gennaio del 1941, in seguito ad un’operazione. La Newton Compton ha già pubblicato Gente di Dublino e Ritratto dell’artista da giovane.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788854141971
Publisher:	Newton Compton Editori
Publication date:	05/25/2012
Series:	eNewton Classici
Sold by:	Newton Compton
Format:	eBook
File size:	417 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