James Joyce's vital attitude, his self-imposed exile and egocentric
posture, is viewed in the paper as correlate of his way of writing, in which
words, motifs, location, time and action are centrifugal forces to the very
stream of narrative process. Exile as a subject matter is studied both literally
and metaphorically in his biography and work, and also is his specific
experiments with language.
A brief perspective of Joyce's importance to postmodernist authors is
also offered at the end of the essay.
