Frases de James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce fue un escritor irlandés, reconocido mundialmente como uno de los más importantes e influyentes del siglo XX. Joyce es aclamado por su obra maestra, Ulises , y por su controvertida novela posterior, Finnegans Wake . Igualmente ha sido muy valorada la serie de historias breves titulada Dublineses , así como su novela semi autobiográfica Retrato del artista adolescente . Joyce es representante destacado de la corriente literaria de vanguardia denominada modernismo anglosajón, junto a autores como T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound o Wallace Stevens.

Aunque pasó la mayor parte de su vida adulta fuera de Irlanda, el universo literario de este autor se encuentra fuertemente enraizado en su nativa Dublín, la ciudad que provee a sus obras de los escenarios, ambientes, personajes y demás materia narrativa. Más en particular, su problemática relación primera con la iglesia católica de Irlanda se refleja muy bien a través de los conflictos interiores que atormentan a su álter ego en la ficción, representado por el personaje de Stephen Dedalus. Así, Joyce es conocido por su atención minuciosa a un escenario muy delimitado y por su prolongado y autoimpuesto exilio, pero también por su enorme influencia en todo el mundo. Por ello, pese a su regionalismo, paradójicamente llegó a ser uno de los escritores más cosmopolitas de su tiempo.

La Encyclopædia Britannica destaca en el autor el sutil y veraz retrato de la naturaleza humana que logra imprimir en sus obras, junto con la maestría en el uso del lenguaje y el brillante desarrollo de nuevas formas literarias, motivo por el cual su figura ejerció una influencia decisiva en toda la novelística del siglo XX. Los personajes de Leopold Bloom y Molly Bloom, en particular, ostentan una riqueza y calidez humanas incomparables.

El editor de la antología The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce [Guía de Cambridge para James Joyce] escribe en su introducción: «A Joyce lo leen muchas más personas de las que son conscientes de ello. El impacto de la revolución literaria que emprendió fue tal que pocos novelistas posteriores de importancia, en cualquiera de las lenguas del mundo, han escapado a su influjo, incluso aunque tratasen de evitar los paradigmas y procedimientos joyceanos. Topamos indirectamente con Joyce, por lo tanto, en muchas de nuestras lecturas de ficción seria de la última mitad de siglo, y lo mismo puede decirse de la ficción no tan seria».

Anthony Burgess, al final de su largo ensayo Re Joyce , reconoció:



Junto con Shakespeare, Milton, Pope y Hopkins, Joyce sigue siendo el modelo más elevado en que ha de fijarse todo aquel que aspire a escribir con propiedad. [...] Pero, una vez leído y absorbido un solo ápice de la esencia de este autor, ni la literatura ni la vida vuelven a ser las mismas de nuevo.



En un texto de 1939, Jorge Luis Borges afirmó sobre el autor:



Es indiscutible que Joyce es uno de los primeros escritores de nuestro tiempo. Verbalmente, es quizá el primero. En el Ulises hay sentencias, hay párrafos, que no son inferiores a los más ilustres de Shakespeare o de Sir Thomas Browne.



T.S. Eliot, en su ensayo "Ulysses, Order and Myth" ["Ulises, orden y mito"] , declaró sobre esta misma obra:



Considero que este libro es la expresión más importante que ha encontrado nuestra época; es un libro con el que todos estamos en deuda, y del que ninguno de nosotros puede escapar.

✵ 2. febrero 1882 – 13. enero 1941
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Frases célebres de James Joyce

“Ya que no podemos cambiar de país, cambiemos de tema.”

Sin fuentes
Fuente: Ulises.

Frases de mundo de James Joyce

James Joyce Frases y Citas

“Las mentes poderosas tienen ojos penetrantes.”

Grace

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“Todo es demasiado caro cuando no se necesita.”

Sin fuentes

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James Joyce: Frases en inglés

“There's no friends like the old friends.”

James Joyce libro Dublineses

Fuente: Dubliners

“Love loves to love love.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Fuente: Ulysses

“He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul.”

James Joyce libro Dublineses

"A Little Cloud"
Dubliners (1914)
Contexto: He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen.

“God made food; the devil the cooks.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Fuente: Ulysses

“Me. And me now.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Fuente: Ulysses

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Fuente: Ulysses (1922), Ch. 2: Nestor

“This triviality made him think of collecting many such moments together in a book of epiphanies. By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself.”

James Joyce libro Stephen Hero

Stephen Hero (1944)
Contexto: This triviality made him think of collecting many such moments together in a book of epiphanies. By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself. He believed that it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care, seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments. He told Cranly that the clock of the Ballast Office was capable of an epiphany. Cranly questioned the inscrutable dial of the Ballast Office with his no less inscrutable countenance:
—Yes, said Stephen. I will pass it time after time, allude to it, refer to it, catch a glimpse of it. It is only an item in the catalogue of Dublin's street furniture. Then all at once I see it and I know at once what it is: epiphany.

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”

"James Clarence Mangan" (1902) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/382/MANGAN1, a lecture on Mangan delivered at the Literary and Historical Society, University College, Dublin (1 February 1902) and printed in the college magazine St. Stephen's
Contexto: Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.

“A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword?”

James Joyce libro Finnegans Wake

Page 306
Finnegans Wake (1939)
Contexto: A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword? A Successful Career in the Civil Service.

“Every night as I gazed up at the window I said to myself softly the word paralysis.”

James Joyce libro Dublineses

"The Sisters"
Dubliners (1914)
Contexto: Every night as I gazed up at the window I said to myself softly the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.

“It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene,”

James Joyce Ulysses

Ulysses (1922)
Contexto: It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness... (271)

“The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.”

James Joyce libro Stephen Hero

Stephen Hero (1944)
Contexto: Imagine my glimpses at that clock as the gropings of a spiritual eye which seeks to adjust its vision to an exact focus. The moment the focus is reached the object is epiphanised. It is just in this epiphany that I find the third, the supreme quality of beauty. … No esthetic theory, pursued Stephen relentlessly, is of any value which investigates with the aid of the lantern of tradition. What we symbolise in black the Chinaman may symbolise in yellow: each has his own tradition. Greek beauty laughs at Coptic beauty and the American Indian derides them both. It is almost impossible to reconcile all tradition whereas it is by no means impossible to find the justification of every form of beauty which has ever been adored on the earth by an examination into the mechanism of esthetic apprehension whether it be dressed in red, white, yellow or black. We have no reason for thinking that the Chinaman has a different system of digestion from that which we have though our diets are quite dissimilar. The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

“Imagine my glimpses at that clock as the gropings of a spiritual eye which seeks to adjust its vision to an exact focus. The moment the focus is reached the object is epiphanised.”

James Joyce libro Stephen Hero

Stephen Hero (1944)
Contexto: Imagine my glimpses at that clock as the gropings of a spiritual eye which seeks to adjust its vision to an exact focus. The moment the focus is reached the object is epiphanised. It is just in this epiphany that I find the third, the supreme quality of beauty. … No esthetic theory, pursued Stephen relentlessly, is of any value which investigates with the aid of the lantern of tradition. What we symbolise in black the Chinaman may symbolise in yellow: each has his own tradition. Greek beauty laughs at Coptic beauty and the American Indian derides them both. It is almost impossible to reconcile all tradition whereas it is by no means impossible to find the justification of every form of beauty which has ever been adored on the earth by an examination into the mechanism of esthetic apprehension whether it be dressed in red, white, yellow or black. We have no reason for thinking that the Chinaman has a different system of digestion from that which we have though our diets are quite dissimilar. The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

“In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust. Allmen.”

James Joyce libro Finnegans Wake

419.9-10
Finnegans Wake (1939)

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