This author created a character who climaxes during a bottle rocket explosion in a novel in which Blazes Boylan has an affair with the protagonist's wife, Molly.
In a short story by this author, the narrator realizes that he is "driven and derided by vanity" in his quest to buy a gift for Mangan's sister. He wrote Father Arnall's fire-and-brimstone sermon into his novel that begins with a nursery story about Baby Tuckoo. This author created a character who climaxes during a bottle rocket explosion in a novel in which Blazes Boylan has an affair with the protagonist's wife, Molly. For 10 points, name this author of "Araby," who created Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom in his novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses.
In a short story by this author, the narrator realizes that he is "driven and derided by vanity" in his quest to buy a gift for Mangan's sister.
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce