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Sailendra asks: A few questions : a) Were these short stories written before 'portrait'? Or later? Were they published before 'portrait' or later? b) What is Joyce's educational background (don't laugh). And where is it from. c) What are Joyce's (self-admitted) literary influences?
Gayatri answers: *Dubliners* was published in 1914 and I don't remember the exact months but *Portrait* was also published serially during 1914-15 in the Imagist magazine *The Egoist* where Pound and Eliot later worked as editors and contributors. We know that he attended grammar school in Dublin andthen attended University College in Dublin where the poet and surgeon Oliver St. John Gogarty was a fellow student. Gogarty is of course more famous as the original model for "the stately plump Buck Mulligan" of Joyce's *Ulysses* than his own poems. In Joyce's correspondences he talksof reading a great deal of Dante, Gerhard Hauptmann, George Moore, Ibsen and Yeats. And he credited the French modernist writer Dujardin's novel *Les Lauriers sont coupes* as the source of his own use of interior monologues.
Maureen first, my favorite piece from _chamber music_: Rain has fallen all day. O come among the laden trees: The leaves lie thick along the way Of memories. Staying a little by the way Of memories shall we depart. Come, my beloved, where I may Speak to your heart. James Joyce, _Chamber Music, XXXII End of discussions on The Sisters!_ |
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