Ce curieux et émouvant petit ouvrage a été écrit par Joyce à Trieste, alors qu'il allait commencer Ulysse et venait de terminer Portrait de l'artiste adolescent. Le héros porte le nom de Joyce et raconte l'histoire de ses amours avec l'une de ses étudiantes d'anglais, une jeune patricienne juive, très belle, qu'il aperçoit de loin à l'opéra. L'idylle se développe dans une écriture soignée, précieuse, à travers des petits tableaux, des réflexions, pour se terminer en pleine hallucination.

Giacomo Joyce

Ulysses

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Exiles

Chamber Music

"There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. He had often said to me: "I am not long for this world, " and I had thought his words idle. Now I knew they were true. Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work."

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Corps parfumés, tièdes, fermes. Tous baisés, donnés: dans les près profonds de l'été, herbes couchées enchevêtrées, dans les couloirs suintants des maisons de pauvres, sur des divans, des lits qui craquent.-Jack, mon amour!-Chérie!-Embrasse-moi, Reggy!-Mon petit!-Mon amour!Le coeur en branle il poussa du restaurant Burton. L'odeur le saisit à la gorge: sauces de viande pénétrantes, lavasses de légumes verts.Le repas des fauves.Des hommes, des hommes, des hommes.

Ulysse I

L'action d'Ulysse se passe en un jour, à Dublin, en 1904. Le personnage d'Ulysse est un petit employé juif, Leopold Bloom ; Stephen Dedalus, jeune Irlandais poète, est Télémaque ; Marion, femme de Bloom et qui le trompe, est Pénélope. Rien n'arrive d'extraordinaire au cours de cette journée. Bloom et Dedalus errent dans la ville, vaquant à leurs affaires, et se retrouvent le soir dans un bordel.Chaque épisode correspond à un épisode de L'Odyssée. Mais la parodie débouche sur une mise en cause du monde moderne à une époque de muflisme. Joyce exprime l'universel par le particulier. Bloom, Dedalus, Marion sont des archétypes. Toute la vie, la naissance et la mort, la recherche du père (Dedalus est aussi Hamlet), celle du fils (Bloom a perdu un fils jeune), toute l'histoire sont contenues en un seul jour. C'est à Rabelais, à Swift que l'on peut comparer l'art de Joyce qui a écrit, dans Ulysse, la grande œuvre épique et satirique de notre temps.

Ulysse

Depuis la publication, en 1957, du premier tome de la correspondance de James Joyce, réunie par Stuart Gilbert, un grand nombre de lettres ont été retrouvées à Trieste et ailleurs. Richard Ellmann, dont la magistrale biographie sur James Joyce fait autorité, les a groupées en deux tomes. Les lettres de Joyce adressées à ses parents, à son frère, à sa femme, à T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Valery Larbaud, ainsi que les réponses de Yeats, George Moore, William Archer, T.S. Eliot, les photos de Joyce et de leurs amis permettent de suivre le grand écrivain au cours des diverses époques de sa vie.

Lettres Tome 2 ; 1882-1915

James Joyce's first novel follows the life of Stephen Dedalus, an artistic and fiercely individual young man. Along the way, Stephen learns to negotiate the 'snares of the world', to avoid the pitfalls of his dysfunctional family, his terrifying and repressive boarding school, and the various beautiful young ladies who capture his heart. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an unforgettable depiction of childhood and adolescence, as well as a lyrical evocation of life in Ireland over a century ago. It shocked readers on its publication in 1916 and it is now regarded as one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man features an afterword by Peter Harness. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de James Joyce. Bref et admirable roman-poème d'amour, "Giacomo Joyce" a été inspiré à Joyce par la rencontre d'une jeune femme juive, Amalia Popper, son élève à l'école Berlitz de Trieste. Ces quelques feuillets énigmatiques relatant un moment de grâce romantique dans la vie de l'auteur d'"Ulysse" ont été gardés secrets toute sa vie. Extrait: "Jan Pieters Sweelinck. Le nom fantasque du vieux compositeur hollandais donne à toute beauté aura fantasque et lointaine. J'écoute ses variations pour clavicorde sur un air ancien: Jeunesse a une fin. Dans la brume indécise des notes anciennes une faible trace de lumière point: la parole de l'âme va se faire entendre. Jeunesse a une fin: cette fin la voici. Jamais elle n'aura lieu. Cela, tu le sais. Et après ? Écris-le, bon sang, écris-le ! de quoi d'autre es-tu capable ?"

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology's consummate craftsman. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...

His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.

He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.

O, the wild rose blossoms

On the little green place.

He sang that song. That was his song.

O, the green wothe botheth.

When you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold. His mother put on the oilsheet. That had the queer smell.

His mother had a nicer smell than his father. She played on the piano the sailor's hornpipe for him to dance. He danced:

Tralala lala,

Tralala tralaladdy,

Tralala lala,

Tralala lala.

Uncle Charles and Dante clapped. They were older than his father and mother but uncle Charles was older than Dante.

Dante had two brushes in her press. The brush with the maroon velvet back was for Michael Davitt and the brush with the green velvet back was for Parnell. Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.

The Vances lived in number seven. They had a different father and mother. They were Eileen's father and mother. When they were grown up he was going to marry Eileen. He hid under the table. His mother said:

-O, Stephen will apologize.

Dante said:

-O, if not, the eagles will come and pull out his eyes.-

Pull out his eyes,

Apologize,

Apologize,

Giacomo Joyce

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