Joyce s heirs. Joyce s imprint on recent global literatures: Joyce's imprint on recent global literatures

Abstract

The figure of Joyce is intangible, an all-encompassing figure whose height and breadth bypasses countries, continents and time constraints and limitations. Many writers have confessed to their being indebted to his works, as have many scholars over the years. However, not everything said about Joyce has always been praising. D.H. Lawrence is known to have criticised him on the basis of his Biblical references or his journalistic-indebted narrative. Almost as a reversed parallelism, Joyce can be pronounced a figure of almost Biblical proportions. One may like him or despise him, but no one is left indifferent. Discussed alike by highranking academics and Dublin taxi drivers, Joyce’s oeuvre is an ever-continuing metaphor of life and its essence at the core of the city, which he left but always inhabited.