Another important writer on that period is James Joyce. He is an Irish novelist born in Dublin on Febrery 2, 1882.

One of the best well-known novels of that writer is"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" which was written from 1904 to1914. In 1914, Ezra Pound, leader of a revolutionary movement of vanguard writers who wished to "blast" out the stuffy Edwardian epoch, began serial publications of "Portrait" in the English magazine Egoist. Ben W. Huebsch published the book in the U.S. in 1916.

Joyce began "Ulysses" in 1914 just after completing his play "Exiles," which was published in 1918; "Ulysses" was completed in 1921.

From 1918 to1920, "Ulysses" was serialized in the U.S. magazine, Little Review; the U.S. Post Office confiscated three of the issues for alleged obscenity. Huebsch refused to publish the book, which was published in Paris under the imprint of Shakespeare & Co. It was not until 1933 that Americans were legally permitted to read the book

The writing of "Finnegans Wake" published in 1939 occupied Joyce for 17 years.

Joyce spent his latter years in Paris, but fled to Zurich during World War II. James Joyce died on January 13, 1941.

Here we are some of his selected works:

"Chamber Music," 1907

"Dubliners," 1914

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," 1916

"Exiles," 1918

"Ulysses," 1922

"Pomes Penyeach," 1927

"Collected Poems," 1937

"Finnegans Wake," 1939