James Joyce and Trieste

1997

Central PR6019 O9 Z5 HA39

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

James Joyce (1882-1941) arrived in Trieste with Nora Barnacle (1884-1951) in October 1904 and they would spend the next ten years living in the lively commercial port. Joyce taught English, the couple learned to speak Italian, and their children, Giorgio and Lucia, were born in Trieste. During his time in the city, Joyce kept his literary pursuits to himself and seldom confided his ambitions to members of his social circle. However, in Italo Svevo he found a ‘kindred spirit’ (Hartshorn, 1997) and he frequently read stories from Dubliners (1914) to Svevo and his wife, Livia. Hartshorn (1997) believes Joyce ‘matured as a writer’ in Trieste and wrote large portions of Dubliners and Ulysses (1922) in the city.