Born in Dublin, James Joyce (1882–1941) spent most of his life abroad, living in Trieste, Paris andZurich. His writings, however, mainly centre on Dublin – most famously Ulysses, Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He pioneered and perfected avant-garde prose techniques that saw him rise to the rank of one of Europe’s foremost Modernists.

His writing is not about something; it is that something itself.

Born in Dublin, James Joyce (1882–1941) spent most of his life abroad, living in Trieste, Paris andZurich. His writings, however, mainly centre on Dublin – most famously Ulysses, Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He pioneered and perfected avant-garde prose techniques that saw him rise to the rank of one of Europe’s foremost Modernists.

His writing is not about something; it is that something itself.

Born in Dublin, James Joyce (1882–1941) spent most of his life abroad, living in Trieste, Paris andZurich. His writings, however, mainly centre on Dublin – most famously Ulysses, Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He pioneered and perfected avant-garde prose techniques that saw him rise to the rank of one of Europe’s foremost Modernists.

His writing is not about something; it is that something itself.