![]() Shortly thereafter he made an abrupt about-face and rejected the church entirely, although it dominated his imagination for the rest of his life. At sixteen, the young man considered entering the priesthood but realized that celibacy was not for him. The oldest son in a Catholic family of ten children, Joyce was educated largely by the Jesuits. James Augustine Joyce, who revolutionized English literature with his shocking language and literary style, was born February 2, 1882, in a Dublin suburb. ![]() Joyce’s semi-autobiographical collection of short stories speaks of the despair and, in the author’s view, the cultural paralysis of the Irish people as they struggle with economic and cultural depression at the turn of the twentieth century.Įvents in History at the Time of the Short Stories ![]() Ireland, between 18 begun in 1904 and published in Dublin in 1914. A collection of fifteen short stories set in Dublin. ![]()
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