James Joyce: A Quantum Writer.

Time magazine's best author of the 20th century, One of the most great writers in English literature, A writer who wrote a book, "There will be more people who write papers than people who read books."

Here comes James Joyce: one of the most influential writer in the English literature history, the writer of Ulysses and Finnegans wake, and one of the most lustful gentleman ever.

When I first heard his name, I unconsciously regarded him as a typical writers who were stuck in their room and spent their whole life writing one book. But he is more like a genius type who also enthusiastically loved his GF. He was Irish, and attended Irish college. As most of the geniuses do, James Joyce had schizophrenia and several health problems. But as we can see through his letters to Nora, James' GF, he was also full with both sexual and materialistic desires.
( Don't be surprised. "My sweet little whorish Nora," was first part of hist letter to his girlfriend. "Even if you had told me with your own lips that half the red-headed louts of Galway had had a f--- with you before me I would still rush at you with desire" and this was another quote from his another letter. In fact, if he were a man of the present age, I think he would have been charged with sexual harassment! LOL)

After his death, his writings are regarded as one of the most convoluted pieces of literature. For instance, Ulysses is still argued for its interpretation and translation even today. The difficulty is thought to be high enough to have someone devoted their whole life to the study. In the book's contents, the composition is more complex than we can imagine, creating a language that we have never seen before, and is literally something that only genius itself can write. “The Pannegans wake” are no different. There is still no Korean translation, and we have been discussing the proper translation for it for 20 years. The reason why James Joyce's work is difficult to understand is that it requires not only a simple literary cultivation but also an understanding of the period and historical situation at that time. Sometimes, because of this abstruse content, there is a lot of discussion about the content itself: whether it is just BS of James Joyce or not.

(Plus, he creates several words such as, homb=home+womb+tomb, which makes most of the readers hard to read. )

To be honest, the difficulty and genius of the work may not seem to make him the greatest writer of the 20th century. But his true value is about his achievement to a new literary trend of modernism. Modernism, as it is said, is the literary trend that emerged among writers in the 19th and 20th centuries, which places great importance on the break-up of tradition and personal thought. Emphasizing that they were different from the existing bourgeois generation, they tried to create a new trend, and noted that even if literature was not objective and subjective, it was valuable in itself. It comes from the idea that only objective things no longer have value, which later played a major role in the idea of existentialism for these modernist writers. And James Joyce was a really pioneering writer in bringing these ideas to the writing.

In this sense, I think that James Joyce is a perfect fit for the word “Quantam Writer.” It is because his writings are difficult to write like quantum mechanics, and it is also because he has developed cutting-edge literature.

While researching this, I thought that literature is much more accessible if one read it in light of various social and historical situations. I hope you'll fall in love with James Joyce while reading this as I did!

+ The song is totally unrelated to this article! But I loved it and I hope you guys do too!