James Joyce

James Joyce (1882–1941) was an Irish novelist and poet who reshaped the landscape of modern fiction. Born in Dublin, he spent most of his life in self-imposed exile in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris, yet he wrote obsessively about his home city, claiming that if Dublin were destroyed, it could be rebuilt brick by brick from his novels. This author hub collects 4 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Ulysses.