James Joyce documentary

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism.
James Joyce documentary
2006

[@tjena5772]

To have read Ulysses not once, or twice but thrice after many failed attempts in my younger years is, for me, the most rewarding experience of my life. Whenever in Dublin I walk through that city with Leo Bloom on my one shoulder and Joyce on the other. And I never fail to take a Ulysses walk through the city whenever I find the time. As an Indian who read this book for his graduation studies understanding very little, it is so consistently revealing to spend time in Ireland in general, and Dublin in particular, to view life through those unique glasses of Joyce. As a fellow historical victim of the English I always feel the Irish and the Indians have a lot in common than they historically realise.

[@tmac8892]

Very well written.

[@cheri238]

I am part Irish, American Native Indian Cherokee, and Spanish.

[@tjena5772]

@@cheri238 Great, but for your part Spanish ancestry you’d be among the greatest sufferers in human history!

[@cheri238]

@T Jena History keeps repeating itself, doesn't it? Being part Irish and part American Cherokee Indian, and part Spanish. I guess it helped me to love literature and history more to keep me learning. You must love literature also.

[@tjena5772]

@@cheri238 Yes, Cheri. Growing up in eastern coast of India I had to start with literature before life took me out to big cities where I got exposed to whole lot of phenomena including Cinema.

[@LorettaKayfeld]

An excellent documentary with a superb narrator. Thank you for posting.

[@JJW77]

The narrator did an outstanding job on this video on James Joyce. Thanks!!!

[@sybilledittmann7195]

From his collection of short stories " Dubliners" I enjoyed " Evelyne" very much.

[@gleisonericli4727]

Yes, I never slept so peacefully during a documentary, and it must be admitted that most documentaries induces epilepsy efficiently.

[@ronankelly6023]

Yes, the narrator does a good job. It’s just a pity he can’t pronounce the word ‘Galway’ correctly. What happened to Lucia Joyce is heartbreaking.

[@a.d.5952]

Poor man...he was like the GINGERBREAD MAN running and running and running and he ran so fast that he ran ahead of himself and his soul got lost.

[@nenadmilenkovic-panic6079]

Yes. But that was his real destiny

[@David2222]

Thank you for the sketch. Most excellent wonder.

[@davidwilliamson2115]

A very well constructed and narrated commentary

[@MegaToti26]

Thank you very much for uploading this beautiful documentary. I adored it!

[@cheri238]

James Joyce was an extraordinary writer! ❤️

[@michaelsammin9055]

The greatest writer since William Shakespeare.

[@cheri238]

@Michael Sammin "Ulysses," by James Joyce I have re-read many times. "Finnigan's Way," also. Shakespeare is a lifetime of reading. I love all the great writers and there are many. (I am still reading 📚 )

[@a.d.5952]

...and professional loser.

[@marymary5494]

Excellent, thank you. 👌💕

[@Khatoon170]

How are you doing sir iam new subscriber Arabic lady citizen since Christmas 2019 I began to subscribe to British and American KZbin channels we are as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to increase our cultural level improve our English language as well so that I gathered key points about famous figure you mentioned briefly here it’s james Joyce born in 1882 died in year 1941 he was Irish novelist short story writer poet literary critic his novel uyssess is landmark of homer odyssey his short story collection dubliners his novels portrait of artist as young man and finnegans wake he contributed to modernist avant-garde movement he wrote three books of poetry play letters and occasional journalism

[@HenHanna]

Excellent ! 😃☘ i hope all the details are correct --- e.g., i thought in 1904 James and Nora went straight to Switzerland, but this Documentary (at 18 min) says that they went to (London) Paris before Zurich, Trieste, Pola.🍀

[@pariahthistledown540]

Most happily did i , finally, get around to reading Ullysses... in middle age... as a homeless squatter... through the long, dark New England Winter. I read the other works as well, but Ulysses is what stays with me most. This was a most fine Doc! In some strange way, Joyce reminds me of Bukowski...who haunted the City of my own youth...odd, this.

[@r.w.bottorff7735]

I myself also clung to a well-worn copy of Ulysses when I was homeless, and although it didn't fill my gut, it certainly allowed me to subsist on next to nothing, maybe because it nourished my spirit instead.

[@edwardprooney9889]

Wonderful!

[@votemonty1815]

Fun to watch.

[@MrUndersolo]

Read Anthony Burgess' "A Shorter Finnegans Wake" a few summers ago...and I need help! I am now co.pelled to read the full version, but I want to find that skeleton key I have heard so much about... This is wonderful to see up. (Insert clapplause)

[@FlaviodeCampos]

I copy&paste iainsan, below: An excellent documentary, superbly narrated.

[@marthamartini8774]

LEO A JAMES JOICE EN ESPAÑOL , ASI ME GUSTARIA ESCUCHAR ESTE RELATO

[@milmex317th]

No es el mismo. Tutifuti

[@milmex317th]

Jajajaj Just busting Ball. N laughing in Spanish.

[@blueeyedwolf2205]

This documentary doesnt even begin to touch on how wildly perverted some of his writing was.

[@cristinavelasco9818]

J.Joyce👍👏👏🇪🇸👍 I❤️ JOYCE... LONG LIVE IRELAND🙋🥰🇪🇸👏👏👏‼️

[@themitochondriaisthepowerh9985]

*I'm Sorry But All I Can Think About Is The Letters*

[@illyboulder2557]

What nationality is the name Joyce?

[@VinodSharma-lm6yz]

Whatever, Joyce novels like Ulysses whereas poses before us a. very difficult reading, Finnigan Wake is an impossibility. Don’t waste time unless you have no other option but to..

[@robertbud8084]

90 proof alcohol. As of heavy liquor

[@_LinusVanPelt]

i couldn’t get through the first chapter 👱🏻‍♀️💕 i’ll keep trying tho

[@jacquelineharrod6386]

I was once asked to microfilm the original mss of "Ulysses". Nobody else in the museum would do it, the language being too revolting. His life was sad and interesting, but l find his work totally boring.

[@eamontierney8130]

Good documentary but a little spoiled by the narrator not doing his homework by learning how to pronounce names of people and places.

[@alannolan3514]

Clongowes is pronounced clon goes

[@rossanapalombo381]

🖐

[@davidryan3079]

At the least, the narrator could learn how to pronounce "Clongowes". Amateur.

[@davidryan3079]

Joyce did not "learn Norwegian". Amateur.

[@Engelhafen]

He escaped Catholicism by going to Switzerland? 🤣

[@roc7880]

Catholicism is different in Swiss

[@Engelhafen]

@@roc7880 I lived in Switzerland and they are known for their devout Catholicism. You may be referring to “Old Catholics” who are even more conservative.

[@sheedy9]

I'm Irish, we were very unique..

[@midnightteapot5633]

Farts and shite , no never mind Mr . J

[@wgaule]

The guy narrating on this video is just terrible.

[@johnmartintaylor9674]

4th

[@tvc153]

Third

[@Gefilta]

Had to laugh at “Chamber Music it was a great struggle to get it out”. Since Joyce gave it that title from the sound of Nora’s urinating in the chamber pot.

[@iainsan]

An excellent documentary, superbly narrated. Joyce comes across as a very conflicted and troubled man with almost multiple personalities. It seems that he was an entertaining joy to know at first, but capable of becoming vindictive and vengeful if crossed. He died comparatively young and what happened to his daughter was very tragic. I found this short account of his life fascinating.

[@ralphdavis9670]

In high school, in America, I read Ulysses and other Joyce works.It was in hearing an Irish actor read his works that made Joyce come alive.

[@terencemeikle534]

Every tiny scrap of Joyce is worth seeking out and devouring. This man has drilled his way into my heart and head like no other writer of any time or any country I've ever read. James Joyce is a lifestyle. 👌

[@More13Feen]

I met his nephew in a pub a couple of years ago. Very nice man!

[@AudreyH100]

Joyce sounds like a free loader and quite selfish don’t know how his wife put up with it.

[@Dana9437]

Just a delicious documentary, beautifully narrated and edited. Just brilliant. Thank you.

[@greeleymj]

Dubliners is really a master work. Rarely has a collection of short stories crawled up inside my head like that one.

[@marthawoodworth]

"The Dead" is considered his masterpiece, but I liked many of the others more.

[@johnking5433]

What is the music being played at 26:35?

[@scarlettfire11]

Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1

[@joycediaries2262]

​@@scarlettfire11thanks a lot

[@31Alden]

Well done, lovely narrator, but the complete story? A bit sanitized as to Joyce’s “proclivities” and so forth. Dubliner’s is by far my favorite work of his.

[@Khatoon170]

Last part of my research he is known for his experiment use of language exploration new literary methods he was going blind because he was suffering from sypilis James Joyce never won Nobel prize despite he being one of most influential critically successful authors of 20th century iam so sorry to be little long but reading and writing both are great ways to improve our English language as none native speakers stay safe blessed happy good luck to you your dearest ones thank you for your wonderful cultural channel

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

Hi, yes that sounds accurate. I'm learning a lot about India and the Middle East right now, so I know the feeling. Thank you for the kind words and welcome to the channel 👍👍

[@robertbud8084]

You better English than me big boy fashionable fan mechanics Ling crafty one do

[@robertbud8084]

The Irish catholic disaster. Drinking always involved heavy drinking 🍸 🙃

[@Khatoon170]

@@robertbud8084 sorry sir iam Arabic lady not man

[@petertobin7163]

So expansive yet so compressed. A brilliant and thought-provoking summary.

[@marthawoodworth]

Huge influence on my writing; like so many other writers. My favorite: "The Dubliners." After reading these exquisite short stories, I wrote several of my own. This is a wonderful documentary. The old photographs are remarkable, fascinating. Can you believe they turned down "A Portrait of the Artist"? The critics can be such fools. I once wanted to be a critic: art and lit. Instead, I decided to BE an artist and writer. The minute I changed my mind, I felt scorn for the critics, though I still continue to analyze the arts, a character defect, lol. It's like "analyzing" butterfly wings.

[@jamietingey7498]

I’ve always told myself to read Joyce. This video was so good that now I’m going to. Anybody have a recommendation as to what to read first?

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

That's awesome 👏👏. I say Dubliners. It's his collection of short stories.

[@pierce_13]

Dubliners is his easiest read. The stories are like photographs, a snapshot in time.

[@GunnerRDS]

Portrait of an Artist then Dubliners then Ulysses then Finnegans Wake

[@HenHanna]

the [Araby] story in [Dubliners]

[@MrUndersolo]

Chronological order is the safest bet.

[@joansavage1857]

Thank you this very interesting documentary!!

[@robertbud8084]

Dublin. custom of drinking ..lots of whiskey. Tradition. Bark of the people are catholic

[@doreekaplan2589]

They were 2 intelligent adults who knew the cost of having TEN kids. Why choose knowingly to live the rest of 12 peoples lives in abject poverty? Senseless. Narrator attributes his knowing about sex as if all guys dont at that age. Granted he is an acknowledged writer but at college I could not make heads or tales of his books. All I got was frustrated.

[@samsum3738]

Excellent video .

[@sonjawhite5815]

This is your best upload to date!

[@JudeNance]

Thank you so very much.

[@robertbud8084]

Irish boy does good on London.. but there are problems. Mainly money

[@dennisjohn247]

Is the narrator a little bit condescending about Dublin?

[@robertbud8084]

Medicine was not his calling ... still hangs around colleges. Lingering in academia. For years with. Friends of various sorts

[@freddelacroix9002]

James Joyce, after Virgil, Charles Baudelaire, Geoffrey Chaucer and John Milton, the fifth greatest in the literal sense of the word "greatest" of all writers, the sixth being Homer, the seventh being Johann Wolfgang Goethe and the eighth being Edward De Vere (the true Shakespeare), the ninth being Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the tenth being Murasaki Shikibu and the eleventh being William Faulkner, the twelfth being T.S. Eliot, the thirteenth being Charles Dickens, the fourteenth being Voltaire, the fifteenth being Mikhail Sholokhov, the sixteenth being Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the seventeenth being Vladimir Bartol, the eighteenth being Thomas Mann, the nineteenth being Jane Austen, the twentieth being Edna Ferber, the twenty first being me, the twenty second being Wladyslaw Reymont, the twenty third being Willa Cather, the twenty fourth being Anabelo Basalo, the twenty fifth being Sarita Skagnes, the twenty sixth being Liv Holtskog, the twenty seventh being Henryk Sienkiewicz, the twenty eighth being Witold Gombrowicz, the twenty ninth being Leszek Engelking, the thirtieth being Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, the thirty first being Lachezar Stanchev.

[@terencemeikle534]

Wot no Rimbaud? 😡

[@djangor4969]

Give me Lee Childs any day!!

[@antoniocarlosrodriguescamp1497]

You didn't t mention Proust, one of the greatest. Sterne...

[@a.d.5952]

Wow... did you have an orgasm after that one. Anyway, I didn't see Mario Benedetti, Umberto Eco, Jorge Luis Borges, Murasaki Shikibi, Juan Rulfo, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Mohammad Rudaki, Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Omar Khayyam, Chinua Achebe, Leo Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and 100 others.

[@nenadmilenkovic-panic6079]

Nabokov, Celline...etc

[@robertbud8084]

Jesuit college. Away from homw disaster

[@robertbud8084]

Fees unpaid. Struggling finances at home

[@maradellabianca381]

Not a mention of Beckett or Frank Budgeon or V Wolfe's envy.

[@lohkoon]

JJ and EE Cummings --- only crosswords puzzle addicts can enjoy their more complex works ---

[@rosamariamendoza1466]

I'm still conflicted .🤔

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

That's okay. If you ever want to give Joyce a chance, I'd say try a short story from Dubliners. I'll be posting a video tomorrow on Ulysses for a better feel of that one, but Ulysses is definitely a commitment.

[@utube247]

What is the song at 26:30?

[@joycediaries2262]

Can anybody reply the same

[@tundrawomansays694]

The Jesuits, eh?! They enjoy playing basketball with kid’s heads and their lockers……

[@antoniocarlosrodriguescamp1497]

Joyce is supposed to have been very uncivilized with the high educated and sweet Marcel Proust in a dinner in Paris.

[@barbarastone3610]

A controversial and promiscuous author. A very interesting narration of James Joyce. Thank you.

[@cristinavelasco9818]

IRELAND🙏👍❤️ The way Ireland usted To be💪🥰👍

[@robertbud8084]

Lucky him

[@jennifs6868]

Such a prominent jaw would make me run the other way!

[@robertbud8084]

Little known fact

[@robertbud8084]

It's ruinous

[@sarahjones79]

Seeds of destruction

[@juanmanuelparadacontreras9565]

Interesante biografía de uno de los escritores más vanguardistas del siglo XX, como fue James Joyce.

[@sonjawhite5815]

Promoted by the ptb - totally overrated- no wonder he went running to Geneva

[@robertbud8084]

Problems with his. Ah catholic mother

[@cavanpoet]

I was writer in residence when George was alive...

[@gabrielacobian9137]

Dubliners, in my opinion, is joice's best work. The rest is vague, superflous and a bit dishonest. I consider Dubliners a masterpiece.

[@jimmie999999999]

Excellent doc !

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

Second!!

[@cassiopeiathew7406]

What is the song that plays during 29:00 ?

[@Tolstoy111]

Satie's Gymnopédie No. 1

[@cassiopeiathew7406]

@@Tolstoy111 in the time since I commented this I found it, it’s such a beautiful piano composition

[@gerryhouska2859]

Last!