Joyce’s Universe

Authors

  • Vitor Alevato do Amaral Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/k0rxjb93

Keywords:

James Joyce, Open Work, Translation, Music

Abstract

The poetic universe created by the Irish writer James Joyce (1882–1941) has been keenly studied in and out of universities. It has been the subject of academic and artistic works (documentaries, movies, plays etc.). The question that serves as motto to this paper is “how to talk about Joyce’s universe?”. The rationale behind the present discussion lies in the assumption according to which treating Joyce’s universe in a non-linear, non-chronological way allows for a creative way of reading, one that dialogues more intimately with its openness, both inter- and intratextually. Throughout the text, quotes from Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Exiles (1918), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939) will be presented in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Portuguese. 

Author Biography

  • Vitor Alevato do Amaral, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

    Teaches English-Language Literatures at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages of the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. His main areas of research are Joyce Studies and Literary Translation, with a focus on the retranslations of James Joyce’s works. He is a researcher affiliated with the William Butler Yeats Chair of Irish Studies (USP) and the Translation and Creation Study Group (UFF). He coordinates the research group Joyce Studies in Brazil. In 2020, he received the Looren Translation House and Zurich James Joyce Foundation joint scholarship. He edited and translated Outra poesia (Syrinx, 2022), the first translation of Joyce’s early poems and occasional poems in Portuguese, and participated in the translation of Finnegans Wake (Finnegans Rivolta, Iluminuras, 2022). He is currently working on a translation of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

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Published

03-12-2025

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Vol. 27 No. 1 (2025): ABEI Journal 27.1 – Special Issue 50 Years of Diplomatic Relations Between Brazil and Ireland

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Amaral, V. A. do. (2025). Joyce’s Universe. ABEI Journal, 27(1), 121-140. https://doi.org/10.11606/k0rxjb93