ABSTRACT
Bom in Dublin, Joyce lived on the Continent from 1904, notably in Trieste, Zurich and Paris, and died in 1941, at the age of fifty-eight, in Zurich. This ‘European’ life is an apt reflection of his place in the international artistic movement of the early twentieth century, a movement which encouraged a supra-national ‘European’ idea of the arts. Many of the artists and writers involved were as interested in the ‘aesthetic’ as the social aspect of culture, and the leading professors, Joyce included, have a reputation for artistic experimentation of a superficially tradition-shattering nature.
