Jan 2, 2010

Eveline | Author Biography

James Joyce, the eldest of ten children, some of whom did not survive childhood, was born on February 2, 1882. While still a child, Joyce’s family enjoyed relative prosperity, enough to send him to private Jesuit schools– experiences which Joyce later chronicles in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. These formative years and stern religious training imbued Joyce with a strong sense of religion that is present throughout his work. However, much of Joyce’s writing and behavior is a reaction against Catholicism rather than an affirmation of it. For example, Joyce did...