num_pages: 231
description: A dazzling prize-winning graphic biography of one of the world's most revered writers.Winner of Spain's National Comic Prize and published to acclaim in Ireland here is an extraordinary graphic biography of James Joyce that offers a fresh take on his tumultuous life. With evocative anecdotes and hundreds of ink-wash drawings Alfonso Zapico invites the reader to share Joyce's journey from his earliest days in Dublin to his life with his great love Nora Barnacle and their children and his struggles and triumphs as an artist.Joyce experienced poverty rejection censorship charges of blasphemy and obscenity war and crippling ill-health. A rebel and nonconformist in Dublin and a harsh critic of Irish society he left Ireland in self-imposed exile with Nora moving to Paris Pola Trieste Rome London and finally Zurich. He overcame monumental challenges in creating and publishing Dubliners  Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man  Ulysses  and Finnegan's Wake . Along the way he encountered a colorful cast of characters from the Irish nationalists Charles Parnell and Michael Collins to literary greats Yeats Proust Hemingway and Beckett and the likes of Carl Jung and Vladimir Lenin.
language: English
title: James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner: A Graphic Biography
publisher: Arcade