Description
Trieste's Joyce Museum is the centre for documentation and study of James Joyce's Trieste years, the Irish author of "Ulysses". Founded in 2004 through a collaboration between the city, with its Attilio Hortis Civic Library, and the University of Trieste, it gathers all kinds of material on his time in the city.
And that time matters: Joyce lived in Trieste between 1904 and 1915, and here he worked on "Dubliners" and "Ulysses". The museum sets out to show how much the Adriatic city weighs in his life and his work.
In Trieste Joyce gave lessons, and among his pupils was an industrialist named Ettore Schmitz, known to readers as Italo Svevo. It seems that Joyce learned from him much of what he knew about Judaism.
The city keeps other traces of him: his statue on the Ponte Rosso, along the Canal Grande, and the house on Via San Nicolò where his son Giorgio was born. Every June the city celebrates him with Bloomsday.
And that time matters: Joyce lived in Trieste between 1904 and 1915, and here he worked on "Dubliners" and "Ulysses". The museum sets out to show how much the Adriatic city weighs in his life and his work.
In Trieste Joyce gave lessons, and among his pupils was an industrialist named Ettore Schmitz, known to readers as Italo Svevo. It seems that Joyce learned from him much of what he knew about Judaism.
The city keeps other traces of him: his statue on the Ponte Rosso, along the Canal Grande, and the house on Via San Nicolò where his son Giorgio was born. Every June the city celebrates him with Bloomsday.