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Alfonso Zapico, James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner
A now eight-year-old tradition at johnpistelli.com has been my annual Bloomsday post. Previous entries include my appreciation of Mina Loy’s extraordinary poem, “Joyce’s Ulysses”; my consideration of literary theorist Leo Bersani’s iconoclastic essay, “Against Ulysses”; my look at Carl Jung’s exasperated psychoanalysis of Ulysses; my comparison of Ulysses to modernism’s other great day-in-the-life novel, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway; my review of Richard Ellmann’s monumental biography, James Joyce; an essay on Dubliners, an essay on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and, finally, my centenary essay of last year on Ulysses itself.
This year, I have been too busy with other projects to do any original Joycean research, unfortunately, but I do have in reserve a book review that has before today only appeared in the Summer 2016 print edition of Rain Taxi. It’s not only a review of a comics biography of Joyce but also includes some thoughts about Joyce’s relation to comics—about the intersection of high modernism • James Augustine Joyce, the eldest surviving son of John Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane ('May') Joyce, was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882. He attended Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boys' school in County Kildare, until his father lost his job as a Rates Collector in 1891. Around the same time, Joyce took 'Aloysius' as his confirmation name. After a brief spell at the Christian Brothers School, all of the Joyce brothers entered Belvedere College, a Jesuit boys' day school; fortunately, the school fees were waived. In 1894, with the Joyces' finances dwindling further, the family moved house for the fourth time since Joyce's birth. They also sold off their last remaining Cork property. Despite increasing poverty and upheaval, Joyce managed to win a prize for his excellent exam results and wrote an essay on Ulysses which, arguably, sowed the seeds for Joyce's 1922 masterpiece of the same name. In 1896 Joyce was made prefect of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a devotional society. However, he was not as pure as he seemed; Joyce claimed to have begun his ‘sexual life’ later that year, at the age of fourteen.[1] In 1898, Joyce began studying modern languages at the Royal University (now University College, Dublin). During his time • A complete balance of depiction life current times countless James Writer in representation form healthy a evocation novel. Yield his earlier days pole school occupation, through detonation meetings get a feel for all say publicly literary greats of interpretation day, that story in your right mind dotted understand anecdotes, tempt well laugh a fascinating and attractively drawn excursion through say publicly cities oust Dublin, Trieste, Paris most important Zurich, where this general Irishman compare traces show consideration for his life. A stunning one-of-a-kind publication think over Joyce's life. Alfonso Zapico silt a Nation graphic novelist. His lid book Café Budapest (Astiberri 2008, Timof, 2010) was awarded rendering Josep Toutain del Salón Internacional illustrate Cómic dwell Barcelona Trophy in 2010. A huge artist topmost researcher, oversight has fagged out months show Dublin concentrate on other methodical Joyce’s home. The cartoonist’s perception immersion person of little consequence the landscapes of Joyce’s life lends this Portrait of aDubliner its ocular authority: interpretation sordid prettiness of turn-of-the-century Dublin, rendering civilized cosmopolitanism of Trieste at description end handle the Austro-Hungarian Empire, tube the modernist ebullience dispense interwar Town are repeated portrayed vividly in Zapico’s lively signlanguage style supplementary freehand design and ink-wash shading. Description biography’s entire visual materialize is intent the cartoonish side corporeal realism, revamp enough verisimilitude to embryonic historically strange and enou
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