James Joyce
1882 – 1941 · Ireland · Literature
Ulysses reorganised what a novel could attempt.
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Continuity of ideas
Who shaped James Joyce, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- William Shakespeare
1564 – 1616 · Literature
Ulysses stages a sustained argument with Hamlet.
Passed the work to3
- Jorge Luis Borges
1899 – 1986 · Literature, Philosophy
Borges translated the last page of Ulysses and argued with its totality.
- Virginia Woolf
1882 – 1941 · Literature
Woolf read Ulysses in manuscript with hostile attention and wrote past it.
- William Faulkner
1897 – 1962 · Literature
Stream of consciousness enters the American South through Joyce.
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