{"id":188,"date":"2026-06-04T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:11:00","slug":"january-13-1941-james-joyce-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"January 13, 1941: James Joyce Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article>\n<header>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Books &amp; the Arts<\/li>\n<li>January 13, 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>January 13, 1941: James Joyce Dies<\/h1>\n<h1>January 13, 1941: James Joyce Dies<\/h1>\n<h2>\n<p>A 1917 <em>Nation<\/em> reviewer takes issue with Joyce\u2019s \u201cbrilliant and nasty variety of pseudo-realism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=186\">January 6, 1919: Theodore Roosevelt Dies<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<time>January 13, 2015<\/time><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>James Joyce died on this day in 1941. <em>The Nation<\/em> had been following his career nearly from the first. This May 17, 1917, review of <em>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em> was written by H.W. Boynton, a longtime critic for <em>The Nation<\/em> who ultimately contributed well over 100 essays. It bears all the marks of the pre-1918 <em>Nation<\/em>, not yet converted to the cause of political and cultural radicalism.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The brilliant and nasty variety of pseudo-realism is excellently exemplified in \u201cA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.\u201d Very plainly the author has set out with the intention of putting another nail in the coffin of convention\u2014which to his mind is much the same thing as decency. What is reticence but hypocrisy? How are we to be honest with each other if we do not use the words that are written upon the fair lexicon of blank wall and private place? How are we to see life whole if we hesitate to chronicle the thoughts and experiences which those words connote for fumbling youth? This young Irish writer is determined to have it out\u2026. His conscious determination is the usual sign of limit and defect. It is so hard to keep one\u2019s balance. In the act of squaring off to hit insincerity in the eye, somehow writers of talent are always forgetting what writers of supreme genius never have to remember\u2014that one does not interpret truth by swatting at any half-truth\u2014or by magnifying any fact. Mr. James Joyce is by no means a trifler, but it would be the best thing in the world for him if he could forget that he is a rebel.<\/p>\n<p>January 13, 1941<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" data-auto-height=\"false\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"600\" id=\"doc_10466\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/250580518\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-ID6Ye3WchjY57CpZ5CMG&amp;show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=184\">How We Can Build an Alternative Future to Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>To mark<\/em> The Nation<em>\u2019s 150th anniversary, every morning this year The Almanac will highlight something that happened that day in history\u2014an event, a birth, a death\u2014and how <\/em>The Nation <em>covered it. 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His writings are at richardkreitner.com.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=182\">What\u2019s Really Behind Peter Thiel\u2019s Panicked Move to Argentina<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span> The Almanac<\/span>Today in history\u2014and how\u00a0<em>The Nation<\/em> covered it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n<p><input\/><br \/>\n<input\/><br \/>\n<\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<p>Ad Policy<br \/>\n<!-- <a class=\"inifiniteLoader\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/new_infi_loader.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> -->\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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