Stanislaus Joyce was more than his brother's keeper: he was at various times his brother's co-dependent, touchstone, conscience, and biggest fan. The two shared the same genius, the same childhood influences, and had the same literary instinct, but in Stanislaus it was channeled into sober academic pursuit, while in James it evolved into gaiety, wild whimsy, and at times sodden despair.Covering the first twenty-two years of James Joyce's life in Dublin and Trieste, My Brother's Keeper is a window onto the drama that was his youth. Thanks to Stanislaus's superb memory and sure hand, here we find the Dublin of Dubliners: the streets, neighbors, churches, and unforgettable eccentrics. Here we see the model for Ulysses' Simon Dedalus: James' father, a dour and violent figure when in his cups. Here are the Joyces in their own home, and the minor characters that pepper A Portrait of the Artist: Eileen, Leopold Bloom's comely daughter; Mrs. Riordan, the surly teacher; Mr. Casey, the political agitator. And finally, here is Trieste, a place of exile for Stanislaus but a retreat for James. Stanislaus Joyce has fashioned both an invaluable primary source for his brother's opaque masterpieces and a loving memoir of his brother's early life.
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Stanislaus Joyce (18841955), the brother of James Joyce, was a professor of literature in Trieste. His wife, Nelly Joyce, published My Brother's Keeper after his death.
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STan really did keep and care for James and his family, including when JAmes briefly returned to Ireland to establish an art cinema chain leaving his family in ITaly.
Excellent insight into the brilliant writer by his also brilliant brother. Please read this book for greater understanding and afection for the specifics of Joyce's work (how stan was pictured in the story A Painful Case), although the view of the universal themes grows dim as we can no longer see the woods for the trees Essential to any complete James JOyce bookshelf and a wonderful and grateful gift for any member of the fervent Joycean faith
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MY RECOLLECTIONS OF MY brother go back to such early years that I hardly dare say how far back they go-at any rate to nursery days. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Gregory, William Archer, Chamber Music, Daily Express, Stephen Hero, Belvedere College, Catholic Church, National Library, University College, John Kelly, New York, Father Henry, United Irishman, Fortnightly Review, George Moore, Glengariff Parade, Good Friday, Holy Ghost, Intermediate Examinations, Millbourne Lane, Uncle William, Father Darlington, First World War, John Eglinton, Malachi Mulligan New!
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MY RECOLLECTIONS OF MY brother go back to such early years that I hardly dare say how far back they go-at any rate to nursery days. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Gregory, William Archer, Chamber Music, Daily Express, Stephen Hero, Belvedere College, Catholic Church, National Library, University College, John Kelly, New York, Father Henry, United Irishman, Fortnightly Review, George Moore, Glengariff Parade, Good Friday, Holy Ghost, Intermediate Examinations, Millbourne Lane, Uncle William, Father Darlington, First World War, John Eglinton, Malachi Mulligan New!
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- Chamber Music by James Joyce in Front Matter, page 148, and page 211
- Poets and Dreamers (Studies and translations from the Irish) by Augusta Gregory on page 157, and page 220
- Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by James Joyce in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Edmund Gosse in Front Matter
- The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (Penguin Classics) by George Meredith on page 205
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- James Joyce (Oxford Lives) by Richard Ellmann on 9 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Derek Attridge on 8 pages
- Writing the City: Urban Visions and Literary Modernism (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Desmond Harding on 6 pages
- Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce on 5 pages
- Aesthetic Autobiography: From Life to Art in the Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin by Suzanne Nalbantian on 5 pages
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