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James Joyce

James Joyce (1882–1941) is the defining modernist of English prose — an Irish writer who took Dublin and made it the measure of the world. Dubliners offers exact, unsentimental stories of a city caught between paralysis and desire; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man follows a mind awakening into language and exile. Ulysses remains his monumental achievement: a single day in Dublin told with such invention that ordinary life becomes epic. Joyce pushed English until it sang, stumbled, and reinvented itself. Few writers ask more of a reader — or give more lasting music back.

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