Joyce was educated at Jesuit schools and University College, Dublin. Joyce visited Paris in 1902 and returned to France in 1905 which was to be his home for most of the remainder of his life. He published a volume of poetry, Chamber Music, in 1907, and a series of short stories which was published as Dubliners in 1914. This was followed by his autobiographical work A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1915. From 1915 until 1920, Joyce lived in Zurich, where he wrote Ulysses, one of the masterpieces of world literature, which was published in Paris in 1922. His most ambitious novel, Finnegans Wake, was published in 1939. Joyce was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. |