The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius
Joyce, James
Augustine
Aloysius
(
1882
–
1941
), novelist, born at Rathgar, Dublin, and educated at the Jesuit schools Clongowes Wood College and Belvedere College, and at University College, Dublin, where
Gogarty
was a fellow student. A good linguist, from an early age he read and studied widely, and in
1901
wrote a letter of profound admiration in Dano-Norwegian to
Ibsen
. Other early influences included
Hauptmann
,
Dante
,
G.
Moore
, and
Yeats
; Yeats was to treat him with considerable personal kindness. Dissatisfied with the narrowness and bigotry of Irish Catholicism, as he saw it,
Joyce
went to Paris for a year in
1902
, where he lived in poverty, wrote verse, and discovered
Dujardin's
novel Les Lauriers sont coupés (
1888
), which he was later to credit as the source of his own use of
interior monologue
. He returned to Dublin for his mother's death, stayed briefly in the...
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