James Joyce  (1882-1941) Araby LINKS Work in Progress: A James Joyce Website http://www.2street.com/joyce/ This site, "a constellation of resources available to enthusiasts and scholars of the work of James Joyce," includes maps, audio recordings of Joyce reading, and time lines as well as links to other online resources and discussion groups. The site also offers access to the hypertext journal of Joycean criticism, Hypermedia Joyce Studies. BIOGRAPHY James Joyce (1882–1941)  Though educated in Jesuit schools, Joyce came to reject Catholicism; though an expatriate living in Paris, Trieste, and Zurich for most of his adult life, he wrote almost exclusively about his native Dublin. Joyce's rebelliousness, which surfaced during his university career, generated a revolution in modern literature. His novels Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939) introduced radically new narrative techniques. "Araby," from his first collection of short stories, Dubliners (1914), is one of a series of sharply realized vignettes based on Joyce's experience in Ireland, the homeland he later characterized as "a sow that eats its own farrow." Joyce lived precariously on earnings as a language teacher and modest contributions from wealthy patrons. That support Joyce justified—he is certainly one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century. Because Ulysses dealt frankly with sexuality and used coarse language, the U.S. Post Office charged that the novel was obscene, and forbade its importation. A celebrated 1933 court decision lifted the ban in the United States.