Poems and Exiles

Resumen del libro

It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Mays in his stimulating and informative introduction, several of these works not only occupy a pivotal position in Joyce's career; they are also magnificently assured achievements in their own right. Chamber Music is 'an extraordinary début', fusing the styles of the nineties and the Irish Revival with irony and characteristic verbal exuberance. Pomes Penyeach and Exiles (highly acclaimed in Harold Pinter's 1970 staging) were written when Joyce had published Dubliners and was completing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Both confront painfully personal issues of adultery, jealousy and betrayal and so pave the way for the more detached and fully realized treatment in Ulysses. Joyce's occasional verse includes 'Ecce Puer' for his new-born grandson, juvenilia, satires, translations, limericks and a parody of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. All are brought together in this scholarly, fully annotated yet accessible new edition.

Biografía del autor

Nace el 2 de febrero de 1882 en Rathgar, un suburbio de Dublín. Cursa estudios secundarios en el internado de los jesuitas, experiencia que dejará un huella indeleble en su obra literaria. Más tarde ingresa en la facultad de filosofía del University College de Dublín, que abandona en 1902 para trasladarse a París. Tras regresar a Dublín para asistir a la muerte de su madre, vuelve en 1904 definitivamente al continente, acompañado de Nora Barnacle, con quien contraerá matrimonio en 1931. Hasta su muerte en Zürich, el 13 de enero de 1941, reside sucesivamente en Roma, Trieste y París, dando clases de inglés y entregado a la creación de obra literaria, que consta de dos libros de poemas, Música de cámara (1904) y Poemas manzanas (1927) los dos en Visor, 1973 , el drama Exiliados (1914) Cátedra, 1987 , un libro de relatos, Dublineses (1914) Lumen, 1972 , un brevísimo relato inédito hasta 1968, Giacomo Joyce, 1914 Tusquets, 1970 , las novelas Retrato del artisrta adolescente (1916) Lumen, 1976 , Ulises (1922) Lumen, 1976 , Stephen el héroe (1944) Lumen, 1978 y Finnegan s Wake (1939) Lumen, 1993 , así como la recopilación de Escritos críticos (1959) Lumen, 1987 y dos volúmenes de Cartas escogidas (selección de R. Ellmann, 1957-1975) Lumen, 1982 .