Snake

Reclusive genius whose obsessive craft rewrote literature's rules.

James Joyce epitomises the snake personality: profoundly introverted, fiercely meticulous about his craft, and deeply misunderstood by the wider public. He spent years in self-imposed exile across Europe, shunning celebrity and pouring every ounce of himself into works like Ulysses and Finnegans Wake with an almost pathological level of detail and obsession. Beneath his quiet, withdrawn exterior lay a sharp, biting wit and a revolutionary literary ferocity that left the world permanently changed.