Walking through Dublin.
Dublin, St. Stephen green Dublin, Earl Street James Joyce Bridge
and Sandycove
Joyce tower
JAMES JOYCE (Dublin, 2 February 1882- Zurich, 13 January 1941)
Biography Born into new Catholic middle class Educated in Dublin by the Jesuits 1902-1903 Travels to Paris 1904 meets future wife, Nora Bernacle 1904 travels to Trieste, Rome, Zurich, Paris Died on 13 January 1941
In many ways Joyce invented Dublin, and those of us living there now have to live in it according to his myopic lens Edward Barrington Symposium, London, June 24, 2000
Relationship between James Joyce and Italo Svevo
When Italo Svevo, the most important author of the Italian Decadentism, needed to learn the English language, he took lessons from James Joyce. Joyce at this time was living in Trieste, northen Italy.
Italo Svevo (pseudonym of Ettore Schimdt), who was ignored by Italian critics, showed his novels to his teacher. The relationship between the two authors became, from that moment, a great friendship.
James Joyce s novels Ulysses Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Dubliners Italo Svevo was one of the inspirations for the character of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses
Italo Svevo s novels La Coscienza di Zeno (Confessions of Zeno) Una vita (A life) Senilita (As a man growes older)
Joyce and Svevo used in their novels new techniques such as the impersonality of the author and the psychological analysis.
Sigmund Freud s influence - stream of consciousness - free direct speech - interior monologue
Ulysses Episode 1 Telemachus STATELY, PLUMP BUCK MULLIGAN CAME FROM THE STAIRHEAD, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently-behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: -- Introibo ad altare Dei. Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called up coarsely: -- Come up, Kinch. Come up, you fearful jesuit. Solemnly he came forward and mounted the round gunrest. He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding country and the awaking mountains. Then, catching sight of Stephen Dedalus, he bent towards him and made rapid crosses in the air, gurgling in his throat and shaking his head. Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him, equine in its length, and at the light untonsured hair, grained and hued like pale oak. Buck Mulligan peeped an instant under the mirror and then covered the bowl smartly.
La Coscienza di Zeno from the chapter Story of a commercial association That day the weather had turned fine again. A splendid spring sun was shining, and, in the still-soaked countryside, the air was clear and healthy. My lungs, taking the exercise I hadn't allowed myself for several days, swelled. I was all health and strength. Health is evident only through comparison. I compared myself to poor Guido and I climbed, higher and higher, with my victory in the very struggle where he had fallen. All was health and strength around me. The country, too, with its young grass. The long and abundant watering, the other day's catastrophe, now produced only beneficent effects, and the luminous sun was the warmth desired by the still frozen earth. Surely, the more we moved away from the catastrophe, the more disagreeable that blue sky would be, unless it could darken in time. But this was the forecast of experience and I didn't remember it; it grips me only now as I write. At that moment there was in my spirit only a hymn to my health and all of nature's: undying health.
JAMES JOYCE AND ITALO SVEVO EDUCATIONAL GOALS FOR STUDENTS : 1- To study the historical movement of the early years European literature of 900 2- To get to know the most important novels of Joyce and Svevo 3- To compare the two authors 4- To manage a conversation (analysis and discussion) about the contents of the module 5- To answer to the questions about the most important contents of the module 6- To answer to the questions about the texts of Joyce and Svevo