Richard Ellmann
Author
Series
Spectrum book. Twentieth century views ; S-TC-87
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
17) Giacomo Joyce
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
Giacomo Joyce is a short story written by James Joyce in 1914, and published posthumously, about the frustrated desire of a teacher - James Joyce himself - for one of his female students. The writing is a compilation of fragments of prose and poetry in which the influences of the East on Trieste's setting and the erotic desire for the female protagonist are omnipresent. A wonderfully rich style both obscures the meaning of the text as well as opens...