2017-02-02 Thu

“A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” - James Joyce.
An Irish novelist, short-story writer, and poet James Joyce was born on 2nd February 1882 in Dublin and is considered one of the most influential modern writers of the 20th Century.

He has authored many short stories, poems and novels like Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939). His collections of poetry include Chamber Music (1907) and Pomes Penyeach (1927).

His novels first met with resistance due to their innovative language, use of dialogue, characteristic modernist forms, and social frankness; Ulysses was banned in the United States (1922-1933). His poems have been converted into music by composers Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer, Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, etc. Despite his poetic success, he is better known as a novelist, and by 1932 he had stopped writing poetry altogether.

An Post (Ireland) issued this 65 euro cents Ulysses commemorative stamp of James Joyce on 16th June 2004.