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Do you know who is this?

Do you know who is this?. ONLY A man:. ... who knew 17 world languages ...who is on the  Irish £10 banknote ...who wrote one of the most challenging and rewarding novels ever written

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Do you know who is this?

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  1. Do you know whois this?

  2. ONLY A man: • ... who knew 17 world languages • ...who is on the Irish £10 banknote • ...who wroteone of the most challenging and rewarding novels ever written • ... considered one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century • people or worksthat are experimental or innovative

  3. James Joyce

  4. Biography • James Joyce (1882-1941),Irish novelist, born in Dublin, noted for his experimental use of language in works such as: • Ulysses(1922) • Finnegans Wake (1939) • Dubliners (1914) • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)... • Joyce's innovations in literature: • He perfected the stream of consciousness • Complex network of symbolic parallels drawn frommythology,history, and literature • Hecreated a unique language ofinvented words, puns, and allusions

  5. Do you know some of his workS?

  6. Ulysses • Joyce’s novel • Approximately265,000 words in length, uses a lexicon of 30,030 words and is divided into 18 episodes. • The”Modern Library” rankedUlysses1ston its list of the ”100 best English-language novels of the 20th century”. • .

  7. Finnegans wake • • It’s a work of comic prose. • •Written in Paris and published in 1939, two years before the author's death, ”Finnegans Wake” was Joyce's final work. • • Anthony Burgesshas praised the book as a great comic vision, one of few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page.

  8. Why is there a monument to James Joyce in Pula? • Simply because James Joyce was once one of Pula's famous inhabitants. The author came to Pula in 1905 and taught English to officers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. The ground floor of the building in which he stayed is now a café, but some landmarks of Pula, like the Triumphal Arch, remain the same. • Some facts about the monument: • A monument to James Joyce sits near the Triumphal Arch of the Sergius Family in Pula. • It’s situated so that it looks like the famous Irish author is sitting in a caféenjoying the weather.

  9. James Joyce’s monument in Pula

  10. Made by: • • Pamela Milotić • • Mateja Derežić • • Klaudia Tukić • Class: 2c • School: Secondary School of Nursing Pula

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