James Joyce
Joyce is the most technically ambitious novelist in the English language, whose Ulysses remade the possibilities of prose fiction and whose Finnegans Wake has never been surpassed in linguistic experimentation. Dubliners established him as a master of the short story before his longer experiments.
Works
- DublinersStory collection depicting lives of middle-class Dubliners in moments of epiphany
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManNovel of a young man's intellectual and spiritual development from childhood
- UlyssesModernist epic tracing one man's day through Dublin paralleling Homer
- Finnegans WakeExperimental novel using multilingual wordplay to tell Irish mythological history
- Stephen HeroIncomplete early version of a young artist's coming of age