Φανερώσεις

by James Joyce, Τζαίημς Τζόυς, Δημήτρης Χουλιαράκης (Translator)

Por volta de 1901, Joyce começou a tomar nota de cenas e episódios, breves e independentes, que ele chamou de “epifanias”. Das 71 que ele supostamente escreveu, apenas 40 chegaram até nós.

54 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1965

About the author

James Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and a pivotal figure in 20th-century modernist literature, renowned for his highly experimental approach to language and narrative structure, particularly his pioneering mastery and popularization of the stream-of-consciousness technique. Born into a middle-class Catholic family in the Rathgar suburb of Dublin in 1882, Joyce spent the majority of his adult life in self-imposed exile across continental Europe—living in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris—yet his entire, meticulous body of work remained obsessively and comprehensively focused on the minutiae of his native city, making Dublin both the meticulously detailed setting and a central, inescapable character in his literary universe. His work is consistently characterized by its technical complexity, rich literary allusion, intricate symbolism, and an unflinching examination of the spectrum of human consciousness. Joyce began his published career with Dubliners (1914), a collection of fifteen short stories offering a naturalistic, often stark, depiction of middle-class Irish life and the moral and spiritual paralysis he observed in its inhabitants, concluding each story with a moment of crucial, sudden self-understanding he termed an "epiphany." This collection was followed by the highly autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), a Bildungsroman that meticulously chronicled the intellectual and artistic awakening of its protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, who would become Joyce's recurring alter ego and intellectual stand-in throughout his major works.
His magnum opus, Ulysses (1922), is universally regarded as a landmark work of fiction that fundamentally revolutionized the novel form. It compressed the events of a single, ordinary day—June 16, 1904, a date now globally celebrated by literary enthusiasts as "Bloomsday"—into a sprawling, epic narrative that structurally and symbolically paralleled Homer's Odyssey, using a dazzling array of distinct styles and linguistic invention across its eighteen episodes to explore the lives of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus in hyper-minute detail. The novel's explicit content and innovative, challenging structure led to its initial banning for obscenity in the United States and the United Kingdom, turning Joyce into a cause célèbre for artistic freedom and the boundaries of literary expression. His final, most challenging work, Finnegans Wake (1939), pushed the boundaries of language and conventional narrative even further, employing a dense, dream-like prose filled with multilingual puns, invented portmanteau words, and layered allusions that continues to divide and challenge readers and scholars to this day. A dedicated polyglot who reportedly learned several languages, including Norwegian simply to read Ibsen in the original, Joyce approached the English language not as a fixed entity with rigid rules, but as a malleable medium capable of infinite reinvention and expression. His personal life was marked by an unwavering dedication to his literary craft, a complex, devoted relationship with his wife Nora Barnacle, and chronic, debilitating eye problems that necessitated numerous painful surgeries throughout his life, sometimes forcing him to write with crayons on large white paper. Despite these severe physical ailments and financial struggles, his singular literary vision remained sharp, focused, and profoundly revolutionary. Joyce passed away in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1941, shortly after undergoing one of his many eye operations. Today, he is widely regarded as perhaps the most significant and challenging writer of the 20th century. His immense, complex legacy is robustly maintained by global academic study and institutions such as the James Joyce Centre in Dublin, which ensures his complex, demanding, and utterly brilliant work endures, inviting new generations of readers to explore the very essence of what it means to be hum

Reviews

[Οδυσσέας Μουζίλης · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Crito · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good for such an early work. As opposed to the more unrecognizable Chamber Music, these brief prose sketches hint very strongly at where Joyce was going to end up a decade later; it has the introspection of Potrait (a few epiphanies were used in Stephen Hero), and there is also that cool peopled atmosphere of Dubliners that runs in that gray area between earthy realism and spiritual ambiguity. The Epiphanies are interesting artifacts for Joyce's development, it gives the sense of the pretentious young Joyce that we only ever hear about from the biographies. As such this is great for someone going deep with Joyce, and not really anyone else. But when it comes to some of his more peripheral works this is probably one of the more enjoyable ones.

[Dimitris · Rating 4 out of 5]

I never read anything by Joyce till now (shame!) so I thought the time finally had come and that it was right to start with these earliest surviving fragments by him and move on chronologically. Some paragraphs were really impressive writing.

[d · Rating 3 out of 5]

JJ, atado al poste y escuchando a las sirenas --

Here are we come together, wayfarers; here are we housed, amid intricate streets, by night and silence closely covered. In amity we rest together, well content, no more remembering the deviousness of the ways that we have come. What moves upon me from the darkness subtle and murmurous as a flood, passionate and fierce with an indecent movement of the loins? What leaps, crying in answer, out of me, as eagle to eagle in mid air, crying to overcome, crying for an iniquitous abandonment? (31)

wayfarers
closely covered
darkness / as a flood
indecent movement
(leaps) / out of me

[Capitan Libeccio · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interessante per i 3 saggi scritti dagli autori del libro... (off topic: di Joyce bisogna recuperare assolutamente le lettere scritte al fratello).

[Molsa Roja(s) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bilingüe lectura a Interzona, davant la necessitat de completar les pistes sobre l’estètica i l’artista que deixa Joyce al seu Portrait. El que Joyce anomena “epifania” és el mateix que Heidegger anomenarà alétheia i molt proper a allò que Deleuze concebrà com a Visió o Audició. El pròleg, com a recull de la problemàtica, és excel·lent. La col·lecció d’epifanies, tot i ser redreçada a diverses de les seves obres, és fins a tal punt fragmentària que resulta difícil d’apreciar. Cézanne pinta una poma; Van Gogh, un girasol, un xiprer, unes sabates de camperol; Joyce, el Dublin de principis de segle XX. Monumental la tasca, monumental l’obra: impressionisme, o stream of consciousness.

“Dull clouds have covered the sky. Where three roads meet and before a swampy beach a big dog is recumbent. From time to time he lifts his muzzle in the air and utters a prolonged sorrowful howl. People stop to look at him and pass on; some remain, arrested, it may be, by that lamentation in which they seem to hear the utterance of their own sorrow that had once its voice but is now voiceless, a servant of laborious days. Rain begins to fall.”

[Francisco Barrios · Rating 3 out of 5]

Este es un volumen doble: por un lado son las epifanías de James Joyce —en la edición de Hayman— y por el otro un cuento breve y ad hoc de Julián Ríos, Epifanías sin fin. Este mash-up es delicioso, aunque más que nada recomendable para aquellos que ya tengan experiencia en el mundo literario del autor de Ulises, o deseen adentrarse en el proceso creativo de las y los autores. De lo contrario, podrían encontrar el concepto mismo de “epifanía” (o lo “vulgar”) en Joyce un tanto desconcertante o pretensioso.

[Marcelo Lemes · Rating 3 out of 5]

O livro apresenta 40 anotações realizadas por Joyce sobre situações do cotidiano. Estas anotações que posteriormente seriam utilizadas em seus livros foram chamadas de epifanias. O termo é discutido sob diversos aspectos em um capítulo incluído nesta edição, bem como as epifanias foram incorporadas nos textos de seus livros.

A edição da Autêntica é muito bem cuidada, tanto em termos do papel e diagramação quanto encadernação.

[C. de L. · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Estoy con él en la noche, cuando lee los libros de los filósofos o algún relato de tiempos antiguos. Estoy con él cuando camina solo, o junto a alguien a quien nunca antes había visto, aquella chica joven que lo rodea con sus amables brazos, que le ofrece su sencillo y abundante amor, que escucha a su alma, que responde sin que él sepa cómo”.


“…hacia dónde, hacia qué corazón, portando qué noticias”.


“Sus manos reposan sobre sus rodillas en señal de cansancio”.

[MgochaM · Rating 4 out of 5]

Banalne fragmenty rzeczywistości poddane wnikliwej i dogłębnej obserwacji. Zapisane. Zatrzymane w czasie, jak fotografie, i przeniesione w przyszłość teraźniejszości...

[antônia · Rating 4 out of 5]

não entendi nada, mas foi legal ler e imaginar o que tava acontecendo por trás da cena e etc.

[Sepehr Asadi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Underrated.

[Tymianek · Rating 4 out of 5]

fajen.

[Raúl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recopilación de los cuadernos de apuntes de Joyce de las epifanías, pequeños fragmentos en los que se recoge un hecho iluminador, ya sea por la utilización de frases memorables, lenguaje o gestualidad vulgar, por reminiscencias o sueños. La edición de David Hayman, que se encarga de la selección, nos introduce a estos fragmentos en los que se da un puente entre la viviencia personal y el hecho lingüístico y/o literario. De como la anécdota se convierte en lenguaje, y se integra en el hecho literario.
Como complemento, un relato del joyceano Julián Ríos, el autor de Larva y sus continuaciones, jugando a la evocación de Joyce y a la técnica de la evocación, con mucha ironía.

[Man · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked the concept, and I'm genuinely drawn to the complex mind of Joyce, but it wasn't interesting enough for me. Perhaps I'm not as familiar with Joyce as I'd wish, but I can't follow his thoughts. It's as if they're too random, even though knowing some of his epiphanies were based upon dreams.

My conclusion, though, is that I certainely must read his 'Ulysses' and 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' - I'm hoping to see his epiphanies in them and think: "Oh, I recognize that one!". Also, as a warning, this book is for those who truly adore or are intrigued by James Joyce.

[Lealdo]

Algum dia eu talvez faça ideia de quais são as seguintes caraterísticas fundamentais dessa coleção:

- Seu propósito;
- O que une os trechos absolutamente desconexos aqui;
- Com qual intenção JJ os escreveu;
- Como usufruir parágrafos supostamente epifânicos desprovidos em absoluto de contexto.

[Artur Nowrot · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rzecz dla fanów Joyce’a przede wszystkim. Kilka epifanii bardzo fajnych, pozostałe ok, ale bez szału. Zabrakło mi albo żeby coś więcej się działo językowo, albo jakiegoś rozbudowania tych sytuacji (które może jednak szłoby wbrew całej idei epifanii).

[Mike Ortiz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'll come back here.