Analizzare un testo narrativo non è mai un’operazione immediata. A differenza della poesia, dove la struttura e le figure retoriche spesso “saltano agli occhi”, la prosa si muove in modo più fluido e meno visibile: significati, temi e scelte stilistiche sono intrecciati alla storia e ai personaggi, e richiedono attenzione, metodo e allenamento per essere messi a fuoco. Proprio per questo motivo, è importante avvalersi di una guida per orientarsi nella complessità del testo, a scomporlo nei suoi elementi essenziali e a leggerlo in modo più consapevole e profondo. In questo post presento una scheda per l'analisi di un testo narrativo, da vedere non come una gabbia rigida ma come un metodo per osservare il testo con ordine, coglierne i meccanismi narrativi e trasformare la lettura in uno strumento di comprensione critica. CONTESTUALIZZAZIONE Autore: ___________________________________________________ Titolo dell'opera: ____________________________________________ ...
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 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 were attended by the children belonging to the local nobility or local intellectuals like Italo Svevo. Joyce and Svevo made friends and the Irish novelist used Svevo as literary prototype for the main character of “Ulysses”, Leopold Bloom; in fact, many details of Judaism included in “Ulysses” were referred to him by Svevo himself.
In 1908 Joyce took singing lessons at the Conservatory of Music and he took part in Richard Wagner’s opera “I maestri cantori di Norimberga” in 1909.
Then, Joyce attended cultural circles of the city and became a regular guest at the Caffè San Marco, a meeting place for intellectuals of Trieste where Joyce worked on his novels.After the outbreak of the First World War some Joyce’s friends belonging to the bourgeoisie helped him to escape to Zurich, in Switzerland.
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