tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post7226132169297986626..comments2024-03-28T22:50:02.315+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: James Joyce - the great years in TriesteHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-7272810831753276612015-04-19T01:26:25.412+10:002015-04-19T01:26:25.412+10:00Joe
no wonder James Joyce and like minded people ...Joe<br /><br />no wonder James Joyce and like minded people wanted to be in Trieste. As a prosperous seaport on the Mediterranean Sea, Trieste was becoming one of the largest cities of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Undoubtedly the stunning railway line from Vienna was key in this growth.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-16374824507120656392015-04-18T23:48:15.995+10:002015-04-18T23:48:15.995+10:00I always see Great Railway Journeys of Europe. One...I always see Great Railway Journeys of Europe. One episode examined the Semmering Railway which was completed between 1848-54, linking Vienna to Trieste and its port. Trieste must have become a exciting city, already by the later 19th century.Joenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-56238244017607420262013-08-28T08:17:15.820+10:002013-08-28T08:17:15.820+10:00Paul
Look at Trieste's unique location! I won...Paul<br /><br />Look at Trieste's unique location! I wonder if most non-Italian readers could locate Trieste on a world map.<br /><br />We would never have even visited, had spouse and I not been driving en route into Italy. Yet clearly Joyce chose, of all the cities in Europe, to live there.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-84655185605716495162013-08-28T04:22:26.279+10:002013-08-28T04:22:26.279+10:00Trieste is a city that I have never visited but th...Trieste is a city that I have never visited but the fact that this once great port city has now become eclipsed by other, greater centres, does give it a sort of nostalgic attraction. I think this is captured well in Jan Morris' last book, "Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere". More recently, the annual Trieste Joyce School has gained great distinction in Joyce scholarly studies.P. M. Doolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16673509230835222713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-73282780980806008382011-12-26T10:04:58.435+11:002011-12-26T10:04:58.435+11:00Joseph,
nod. I wonder if Stanislaus was annoyed b...Joseph,<br /><br />nod. I wonder if Stanislaus was annoyed by his brother's carefree attitude to paying debts. After all, Stanislaus had his own wife and family to support.<br /><br />The name of Stanislaus' book, My Brother’s Keeper (published in 1957 after James, Nora and Stanislaus had all died), might be a clue.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-62006908357088977502011-12-26T03:01:03.048+11:002011-12-26T03:01:03.048+11:00I feel sorry for Stanislaus Joyce, like Theo van G...I feel sorry for Stanislaus Joyce, like Theo van Gogh. One brother is the dedicated genius and the other brother does the grunt work, keeping the family together.Josephnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-4253196201099446682011-12-25T09:15:31.406+11:002011-12-25T09:15:31.406+11:00Hermes
you must have been a precocious lad :)
Re...Hermes<br /><br />you must have been a precocious lad :)<br /><br />Returning permanently to Ireland would have seemed a very unlikely step for Joyce ... ever. <br /><br />I suppose by 1920 Paris had remained or become the centre of the literary and artistic world. Joyce and his avant-garde friends seemed very happy living there for ever. Or until WW2 intervened.<br /><br />But it was Zurich that gave him a safe haven during WW1 and during the first years of WW2. And there is a very interesting James Joyce Literary Trail in Zurich, just like there is in Trieste.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-50035623193707207392011-12-25T01:49:30.477+11:002011-12-25T01:49:30.477+11:00Thanks Helen, nothing about WW1 but I did find a b...Thanks Helen, nothing about WW1 but I did find a bit longer quote from Gillet about Joyce's views on Trieste.<br /><br />"This pretty, good-natured Austrian city, half-slavic and half-Italian , with the gaiety of the Midi, the medley of languages, the animation of a harbour, and an already exotic, oriental flavour (as Veronese's Venice), had given him an extreme pleasure: there were no classical monuments, no Roman mementos (sic) as in Split or Ancona. But there was the rock of Ithaca and on the sea, the sail of Ulysses."<br /><br />Perhaps interesting that he never returned though and stayed in Paris. As I recall 1914 was a good year for Joyce with several books published. I got Ulysses as a school prize - my choice) much to my headmasters utter disgust!Hermeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00968366076064269729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-89461221758793126772011-12-25T01:19:15.601+11:002011-12-25T01:19:15.601+11:00Hermes
thanks :) you too.. a great holiday.
It i...Hermes<br /><br />thanks :) you too.. a great holiday.<br /><br />It is easy to see why Joyce wanted to leave Ireland and to move to Trieste at the turn of the century - it would have been very bohemian and cosmopolitan. <br /><br />But did Gillet say how Joyce felt about Trieste during WW1 and after? Hostilities between Italy and Austria-Hungary were a nightmare, a situation which did not really end when Trieste was occupied by the Italian Army and absorbed into Italy.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-35925685160275230762011-12-25T00:46:09.808+11:002011-12-25T00:46:09.808+11:00Leon and Sue
don't you love blogging? Somewhe...Leon and Sue<br /><br />don't you love blogging? Somewhere around the world there is someone writing about a topic that you have just discovered or a topic you have loved for decades.<br /><br />Earlier this year I had been looking at George Bernard Shaw and Sylvia Beach. She was preparing to publish Ulysses at Shakespeare and Co in rue de l’Odéon and sought subscriptions from would-be readers. Shaw gave her a clear refusal, and some gratuitous advice he he. Ezra Pound on the other hand, supported his friend Joyce and attacked Shaw.<br /><br />That "Lost Generation" must have been a fun bunch of lads :)Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-72426980474091203812011-12-24T23:00:33.028+11:002011-12-24T23:00:33.028+11:00I love the books he wrote there.
Louis Gillet wrot...I love the books he wrote there.<br />Louis Gillet wrote:<br /><br />"He (Joyce) liked to remember his happy days and spoke preferably of Trieste. His thoughts lingered on this topic with delight. There for a few short years he had enjoyed some moments of respite; fate had spared him some time."<br /><br />Have a good Christmas Helen.Hermeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00968366076064269729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-33389483794914450072011-12-24T22:04:21.570+11:002011-12-24T22:04:21.570+11:00How uncanny that you should post on James Joyce as...How uncanny that you should post on James Joyce as I'm in the middle of Sylvia Beach's book on her shop, Shakespeare and company where she talks of Joyce and publishing his manuscript "Ulysses" when no other publisher would in 1922. Especially interesting is her account of meeting Joyce and his subsequent visits to Shakespeare and Company. It's Xmas Eve and I now have to pop of to bed to read more of Sylvia Beach and James Joyce.<br />Nice post. And BTW Merry Christmas.Leon Simshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17609891995057827081noreply@blogger.com