As a young man he rejected his country and its religion, but went on to carefully recreate the Dublin of his youth in his fiction. James Joyce (1882-1941) is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Despite failing eyesight and domestic worries, his last book, Finnegans Wake, is a celebration of the great human comedy in which each of us has a part. Ulysses was banned in Britain and the United States, but has since been recognised as a masterpiece that revolutionized the modern novel. Из серии: Life & Times
2004