"Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and a ghost-woman with ashes on her breath. They clasped and sundered, did the coupler's will."
James Joyce was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, and poet whose work transformed modern literature. He is best known for Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. His experimentation with language and narrative form had enduring influence on 20th-century fiction.