Commentary: From 'My Generation' to the generation of 'Me'
Published on November 19, 2016
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By Tiberiu Dianu
Back in my high school years, I had discovered James Joyce and became a fan of his literature. In fact, I was so much into him that I decided to enter a regional English Literature essay competition. There I won a second prize award for an essay dealing with his autobiographical work. I have been keeping my award ever since, together with my personal documents and school transcripts, in a safe place at home.
Part of those years I spent deepening my knowledge into his works, and particularly in Dubliners, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. Although regarded as an apolitical author, Joyce was, in fact, sympathetic to the radical political movements of his time, particularly in anarchism, syndicalism (revolutionary unionism) and socialism, which, in those years, were influential for the avant-garde writers on their road to literary modernism.
These days, shortly after Donald Trump has become president-elect of the USA, playing by all the rules of the democratic game, our nation has started to be confronted with a resurgence of the Left (both moderate and anarchist-radical), who was the big loser of the 2016 elections.
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