Given Joyce ’s musical patrimony – his own fine voice and talents as a musician, his father’s considerable and near-professional skills as a singer, his encyclopaedic knowledge of musical matters, and the rich musical milieu in which he grew up – the profound influence of music on the shaping of his works should come as no surprise. The number of books that Joyce wrote in his lifetime is small compared to the output of virtually any other author one can name. But what books! In prose, with each new work he pushed dramatically past the boundaries he had set for himself in his previous endeavours, stylistically as well as thematically. Between “Dubliners” and “Finnegans Wake” there is both continuum and continuity: continuum from the local (people of Dublin) to the universal (Here Comes Everybody) accompanied by an evolution – and revolution- in technique; continuity in that his characters, locales, and subject matter always remained distinctly Irish and of his time, while Joyce, as arti...

The relationship between James Joyce and Trieste is an extreme element not only of his autobiography but also of its evolution as a writer. If Dublin was the city where Joyce’s personality was created and shaped, Trieste is the one where Joyce’s personality developed and matured. Joyce moved to Trieste for more than ten years with her wife Nora. The Italian city was the place where Joyce had a long series of personal and literary experiences: he became father of two children, losting, but, a third one, he fell ill, encountered poverty and experienced an increasing number of literary successes. Joyce worked here as English teacher at the Berlitz language school, journalist and reporter of local journal “Il Piccolo della Sera” and gave some literary presentations in conferences. Despite the troubled period, Joyce completed some short stories which would later compose “Dubliners” and, then, he finished the second draft of “Chamber music”. Joyce often gave private English lessons which we...