![]() ![]() ![]() Joyce’s technical innovations include an extensive use of the interior monologue and other experimental narrative techniques the use, in Finnegan’s Wake, of a unique language of invented words, puns, and complex allusions and the use of a complex network of symbolic parallels drawn from mythology, history, and literature. Irish novelist, short-story writer, and poet, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce is regarded as one of the greatest literary talents of the 20th century and is known for his revolutionary innovations in the art of the novel. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. ![]() It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ![]()
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