Dublin as City of Paralysis VS Paris as City of Darkness in Modernist Literature

Early in the 20th century it was an era of major change. The Industrial Revolution brought technological progress, Darwin's theory of evolution completely overturned the traditional scientific beliefs. At the turn of the century, such a major change occurred and the focus of modernism shifted from realism to experimental methods such as fragmentation and demineralization. Modernist writers are no longer interested in drawing the city in a Victorian style.

James Joyce produced a novel and a short story in a small town in Dublin. "Dublin", published in 1914, is part of modernist literature as well as "Portrait of young artists" and "Ulysses". Steven Dada Ross is a portrait and a central character of Ulysses. The latter was forbidden. The next important writer is Virginia Woolf who is connected to the Bloomsbury group, a group of intellectuals and writers encountered at her house, E. M Forster, Leopold wolf and others. Wolf tries to present a changing world by changing the way of writing. In 1915 she published her first novel called "Yanhan", and then in 1919 she appeared in "Night and daytime". Both books are realistic and have a serious tone. The pressure of modernism in her writing began in her next novel, Jacob's room, published with Ulysses in 1922. The rest of the novels such as "Mrs Dalloway", "To Lighthouse", "Wave", "Orlando" all have the same modernism.

The expression of the city is an important forum for literary and movie encounters in modernist culture. Wolf's novel "Lady Darrow" (1925), such as James Joyce's "Ulysses" (1922), is a novel in the 1920s. The movie "City Symphony" is closely related and represents the day of city life (Paris, Berlin), New York, Moscow, and it is the end of every day. Examples of centers include Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: The City of Symphony (1926) and Dziga-Vertov's Cameraman (1928). Just like Mrs Dalloway and Mrs. Ulysses, people are concerned about the inspections and movements around the streets of the city. As Wright wrote for Mrs Darfroy, Wolf wrote in her diary. ... The face was used to lift my mind; it prevents it from solving.