Chapter 57 ireland please return to joyce

one Traveling across England is a treat.In Europe, the field scenery here can directly match that of Austria and Switzerland. It is more relaxed than the German countryside and neater than the French countryside, not to mention Italy and Spain. Looking at it for hundreds of kilometers, there is no gaudy, no mess.Grass slopes, bushes, valleys, and dirt roads seem to be being repaired every day, and they seem to have never been repaired. They seem to attract people's attention everywhere, and they seem to avoid people's attention everywhere.In my opinion, this is the gentlemanly demeanor of the field.Gentlemen are classy and slightly ostentatious, and here too.

As soon as I arrived in the Wales area, the gentlemanly demeanor was a bit unstoppable, with rolling hills and the sea in front.From the big island to a small island, and from the small island to an even smaller island, where there is a pier, across the sea to Ireland. Ireland is no longer a gentleman, with a simple spirit and an ordinary smile on his face. two Among the poorest countries in the European family at present, Portugal is the first, Ireland is the second, Greece is the third, and Spain is the fourth.I looked at each one carefully along the way, and I had a vague premonition: if there were no special circumstances, Ireland might be the first to get out of this list.

The other three countries have past glories, but Ireland does not.It has been bullied and conservative. Generations of parents have told their children in tears: leave, you must leave!As a result, in a country of more than 3 million people, there are more than 30 million Irish descendants living all over the world. When the external obstacles were finally gradually lifted, and their own history was no longer a burden, the Irish began to feel confident.They said: Seven of the previous presidents of the United States are of Irish origin, including Kennedy, Reagan, and Clinton who are the most elegant. Such a big country can manage well, let alone an Ireland!Poverty and simplicity, coupled with self-confidence and order, this land immediately has a look.

three Dublin's city center is not lively, but there are many bars in the narrow streets.Young people huddle together every night to dance and drink, and the modern music they compose and perform has acquaintances all over the world.For example, a choreographer and director in our team who has never been here is very familiar with it. The partners have been wondering: Ireland is a remote island country, why is the youth ecology so avant-garde and the culture and art so cutting-edge? In my opinion, culture does not necessarily depend on economy, spirit does not necessarily depend on environment, roc does not necessarily come from high mountains, and bright moon does not necessarily accompany stars.Ireland was even colder back then, but there were George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Yeats, the last two of whom have the romantic style of today's bars.What's more special is Beckett, the founder of the absurdist theater, and Joyce, the author of "Ulysses".

Four 35 North George Street in Dublin is an old three-storey building that is now the Joyce Centre. I have been to many former residences and memorial halls of famous writers, but this place is so special that I wandered up and down for half a day. Joyce had never lived in the house.He was twenty-two when he left Dublin, in poor condition and without leaving a trace.My ancestors had some property, but my father was an alcoholic and made the family poor. He kept selling and selling his property, and moved all day long to avoid debts. The family lived in different places, and this place was one of them.

The center was run by Joyce's nephew, who had never met Joyce.His mother, who is also Joyce's own sister, has repeatedly told him quietly: don't mention uncle too much, so as not to affect his future.This nephew is seventy-five years old this year, with a red face and white hair, good complexion, kind and friendly, and can recite some fragments of "Ulysses", but upon careful questioning, he does not understand this work, does not know it What is so good about and why is it attracting the attention of the whole world. As the owner of a memorial center, I frankly expressed my estrangement from the objects of commemoration. This is the first time I have encountered it, so I am in awe.Although those managers who can talk endlessly are also admirable, but when they think about it quietly, they always feel that it is not tasteful.It is obviously a giant peak and a sea, how could it be summed up so easily by you?The shyness of my inability to read, the panic when I couldn’t answer our questions, and the embarrassment that my uncle would write so many ridiculous sentences in the eyes of Joyce’s nephew made me feel to a cultural sense of sincerity.Although in the general sense, he is not a qualified master.He did not use blood status and today's position to fill the gap between greatness and mediocrity.He stood on the other side of the big river and took care of his distant uncle, knowing that he could not swim to the other side where his uncle was.

What he told me over and over again was the fact that Ireland didn't like Joyce, and Joyce didn't like Ireland; Joyce seldom came back from Dublin, but all of his writings were about Ireland.These few simple words shocked me that the relationship between a lonely soul and the land is so lingering. As far as I know, until later in life, Joyce struggled to find a place to settle and deliberately avoided his hometown.Once Yeats and Bernard Shaw planned to establish the Irish Literature Academy and sincerely invited him to participate, but he also refused.He didn't want to be part of a certain faction, especially one related to his hometown.

I remember that I analyzed the complex psychological relationship between Chinese literati and their hometown in my previous article "Where is the Hometown?" In contrast, this Irish literati obviously has a stronger and more sad farewell mentality. This building has been fully renovated for 14 years, and it was only opened in 1996. Even the president came to attend the opening ceremony.It can be seen that Ireland really wants to embrace the wanderer who has been separated for many years, with this building, with that blazing fire, and with those old photos that were finally collected.But has Joyce's wandering soul been embraced?What is really reliable is that it embraces various editions of Joyce's works published in various countries around the world, as well as visitors from nearly a hundred countries every year.

In the reading room on the second floor, researchers who are immersed in their work are sitting in every corner, making the hurried visitors a little embarrassed.I wandered there lightly, sorting out my impressions of "Ulysses".I remember that it was only written in one day, and the psychological experience of a couple was compact and overwhelming, which was unbelievably real, but it formed a distant parallel with Homer's epic "Odyssey", so it became a modern epic. It will make readers who are used to traditional novels not used to it, but once it has it, people will gradually become unaccustomed to traditional novels.

Ireland once rejected him because it was not used to it, but now, no one is used to an Ireland without Joyce. From this we can see that habit is a magic wand, which always drives out all creation, and if it cannot be driven away, it turns around and drives out the opponents of creation. I remember that after "Ulysses" was serialized in American newspapers in 1918, it was charged in court in 1920. The court ruled that Joyce lost the case, stopped the publication of the book, and fined him fifty dollars on the grounds that the book contained Indecent, will seduce many overly sensitive people.When the court went to court for the second time in 1933, social concepts had changed drastically. The American judge acquitted Joyce this time and restored the reputation of "Ulysses" on the grounds that the law did not take care of those who were always waiting to be seduced. Sensitive people, the law only considers normal people.

This verdict is really pleasing.Many crimes in history were the sentencing of abnormal people to normal people, and abnormal people always use super-intensive moral excitement to cover up their faults.Therefore, just introducing the concept of a normal person will wake up the whole situation. The two sentencing of "Ulysses" in the United States also shows that even in the modern United States, the law has a process of self-improvement.The macro factor driving this process is the era, while the micro factor is the case. The provisions of the law compare principles, and as soon as the case is involved, right and wrong are concretely and vividly revealed.No single statute feels as strongly and concretely as a case on pins and needles.Therefore, if there is a lack of cases in a certain field, it means that the intervention of social feeling and rationality in this field is actually closed, and the legal justice is refused to be realized in this field. So I think Joyce made three contributions to Ulysses: first, he wrote it; second, he lost it in court; and third, he made it win in court.With this syllogism, this work is no longer just a classic of modern literature, but also a classic of cultural law.After it, modernist works all over the world were legally safe. From this, I think that there are too many things that make people angry in the Chinese cultural circle. If you want to ask the law to arbitrate, you must first let a series of cases demonstrate it.Therefore, there should be more victims who are not afraid of suing or appearing in court, even the cultural people who have always been most afraid of going to court. Ireland has now begun to move towards an international normality in all aspects. The economic development is not slow, which is impressive, but cultural issues are more troublesome.They also understand that they can't just show off their national heritage like other backward areas, so they invite Joyce back first, at least they can guess the international cultural vision through him. Guessing will never be done in one step, so first arrange an old house for him to live in, and everyone will get used to it together.