I hope you didn’t expect us to know Italian.
Topics in this episode include the real Almidano Artifoni, why he wears such stiff trousers, what he and Stephen are talking about in “Wandering Rocks,” James Joyce’s early passion for the Italian language, Joyce’s early days in Trieste, his friendship with Artifoni, the Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Stephen’s search for a father, and Joyce’s brief music career.
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Further Reading:
- Adams, R. M. (1962). Surface and symbol: The consistency of James Joyce’s Ulysses. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Del Greco Lobner, C. (1983). James Joyce and the Italian Language. Italica, 60(2), 140–153. https://doi.org/10.2307/478545
- DEL GRECO LOBNER, C. (1993). “Sounds are Impostures”: From Patronymics to Dante’s “Trombetta.” Joyce Studies Annual, 4, 43–54. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26283684
- GATTI-TAYLOR, M. (1989). IT LOSES SOMETHING IN TRANSLATION: ITALIAN AND FRENCH PROFANITY IN JOYCE’S “ULYSSES.” European Joyce Studies, 1, 141–149. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44871181
- Gilbert, S. (1930). James Joyce’s Ulysses: a study. New York: Vintage Books. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.124373/page/n3/mode/2up
- Schwarz, D. (2004). Reading Joyce’s Ulysses. Palgrave Macmillan.
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