Description
"This is a political and intellectual biography of James Joyce before he left Ireland in 1904, and in the first phase of what he characterised as exile in Trieste and Zurich, up to 1912. The book marks the first sustained attempt to situate Joyce in his contemporary political and cultural milieu in Ireland and Europe. Joyce (1882-1941) lived through politically charged times: the Parnell split, the Celtic revival, the Abbey riots, and the home rule crisis, and then eventually of course the first world war, and the Easter rising, as well as the rise of fascism, the prelude to the Holocaust, the outbreak of the second world war, and the creation of Vichy France"--
