The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-13


 of a stomach disorder for which he had taken treatment for several years. His condition did not improve and he was taken to the RoteS Kreuz hospital. An X-ray examin- ation showed that an operation was necessary. Joyce's condition im- mediately after the operation pleased his physicians. But the rally did not continue. He was given two blood transfusions but died at 2:15 a. m. today, with his son at his bed- side.
 George Joyce said it was likely his father would be buried here, where he had made his home for several years during the last war, and to which he had come several times from Paris, where he lived afterward, for delicate operations on his eyes during the many years he fought constantly against the imminent, threat of blindness.
 Known For Ulysses
 Joyce was known principally for Ulysses, the epic work which de- scribes one day-June 16 1904-in the life of Leopold Bloom, adver- Using solicitor for the old F'reeman's $ Journal newspaper in Dublin. He spent seven years, between 1914 and 1921, writing Ulysses. Pre- viously he had published chamber music, small volume of lyrics; Dubliners, book of short stories; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, an autobiographical novel, and Exiles, a play. These works and a few poems constituted his entire literature output up to 1922 when he started what he intended to be his masterpiece, published as Fin negans (FinneganS) wake in 1939
 Born, Educated In Ireland
 Born and. educated in Ireland, and having lived principally in Dublin, Joyce exiled himself in 1904 He lived in Trieste and Rome, Eur ich and Paris, in the greatest pov- erty, working sometimes as trans lator for few dollars a week and at other times as language teach CT. He was master of dozen lan- guages-he learned Norwegian as youth so he could read Ibsen in the original-and was familiar with several more.
 Ulysses, published in 1922, made him famous. It was hailed as a revolutionary work and one of the greatest novels ever written. Bloom was the hero" but it told ot lesser extent of the day of Stephen Dedalus, Dublin student. Dedalus was Joyce. Dedalus, too, had been the protagonist of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
 It had taken years for Joyce to get published his little volume of short stories, Dubliners, because of their unfiattering description of Dublin characters and places; and because of his treatment, in one, of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII. It was not until 1883 that Ulysses could be published in the United States. United States Fed eral Court Judge John M. Woolsey overturned previous rulings by de- claring it literature, and as such, not obscene.
 Finnegans Wake
 Joyce spent IT of the last years of his life writing Finnegans Wake. Ulysses had been difdcult to under stand; to understand Finnegans Wake in it's entirety and to read it as an ordinary book is read, was impossible. Many critics who had already acknowledged his genius, dismissed it as gibberish. It is based on an Irish song about one Finnegan, a contractor who fell of a wall. In it words and phrases are run together, words are spelled backwards, words of many lan- guages are used, there is punnish play upon nearly all important words. AS Joyce had told of one day in Dublin in Ulysses, he tried to tell of one night, and of dream state, in Finnegans Wake.
 Finnegans Wake was so obscure to even literary experts that little was heard of it after it's first impact on the literary world, and there had been few attempts to interpret it.
 Was Music Lover
 In Joyce's earlier works, Stephen Dedalus had voiced the desire to write books-possibly titled by let ters, as w" or "V''-which would be apprehended only many years after his death. Further, Joyce was music lover. His Ulysses was a symphonic work in which various themes ran throughout. His Fin negans Wake, likewise, sounded like symphonic music when Joyce, in his liquid Dublin voice-he was one of the best tenors of his day in Ireland-read from it.
 Most famous in all Joyce's writ ings was the Interior Monologue" with one of which he closed Ulysses, a soliloquy by Molly Bloom, Leo pold's adulterous wife, some 25,o00 words without punctuation. He de- veloped this interior monologue from Les LaurierS Sont Coupes," |" by Edouard Dujardin, to whom he gave full acknowledgement. Du- jardin'S work has been published in this country as wen to the Woods no More"
 George Joyce said that his father had undertaken no new work since he completed Finnegans Wake, partly because of recurrent illness and partly because in recent months, before he reached Cannes ond Z,,rint hn or,d hic fo yo1i1x, I,o d