{"id":2906,"date":"2025-06-10T15:19:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/?page_id=2906"},"modified":"2025-06-13T12:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:51:23","slug":"giacomo-joyce-1968","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/james-joyce\/joyces-works\/giacomo-joyce-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"Giacomo Joyce (1968)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Written:<\/strong> in Trieste, c. 1911 to 1914, very likely with some later additions from c. 1919 or 1920<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Book publication: <\/strong>New York: Viking, 1968<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>by Rozerin Asmin Saripinar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><sup><em>Youth has an end<\/em>. In the vague mist of old sounds a faint point of light appears: the speech of the soul is about to be heard. Youth has an end: the end is here. It will never be. You know that well. What then? Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for? (16)<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>James Joyce wrote the short, fragmentary prose poem <em>Giacomo Joyce<\/em> in an interim around the time when he completed <em>Ein Portr\u00e4t des K\u00fcnstlers als junger Mann<\/em> but had not yet begun <em>Ulysses<\/em>. Though Joyce produced a fair copy of <em>Giacomo Joyce<\/em> in c. 1914, he refrained from publishing it. (It is very likely that Joyce added some additional passages much later, around 1920, but once again he decided not to publish the text.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, the manuscript was saved by his brother Stanislaus Joyce, and <em>Giacomo Joyce<\/em> was posthumously published almost half a century after Joyce had added the final portions to the text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The setting of <em>Giacomo Joyce<\/em> is uncharacteristic for Joyce. While almost all his other works are set in his hometown Dublin, the enigmatic story told in <em>Giacomo Joyce<\/em> unfolds against the backdrop of Trieste, where Joyce spent a substantial part of his career as a writer (between 1904 and 1915 and again, briefly, from 1919 to 1920).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The text itself mainly consists of its narrator\u2019s inner monologue: fairly short fragments of prose that are &#8216;interrupted&#8217; by blank spaces on the page. The story itself is a partly autobiographical exploration of Joyce\u2019s erotic fascination with a much younger adult pupil of his which, toward the end, transforms into a farewell letter to youth itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Giacomo Joyce <\/em>is perhaps best described as a fascinating and problematic modernist experiment that grapples with themes such as the class difference between a teacher and his wealthy pupils, middle-aged men&#8217;s objectification of younger women, as well as fantasies \u2013 erotic and otherwise \u2013 revolving around Jews and Jewishness. It does not make for comfortable reading, but remains strangely compelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><sup><strong>Source:<\/strong> Joyce, James. <em>Giacomo Joyce<\/em>. Introduction and Notes by Richard Ellmann. Viking Press, New York, 1968.<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div style=\"height:52px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"870\" src=\"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2914\" style=\"width:418px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed-1.jpg 672w, https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed-1-9x12.jpg 9w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Giacomo Joyce<\/em>: Facsimile of a page from the manuscript.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Rozerin Asmin Saripinar Youth has an end. In the vague mist of old sounds a faint point of light appears: the speech of the soul is about to be heard. Youth has an end: the end is here. It will never be. You know that well. What then? Write it, damn you, write it! 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