James Joyce In Trieste

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The great Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941) left Ireland with his wife Nora Barnacle in 1904 and spent the following years in Trieste. This Adriatic port city is now in Italy but was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire at the time. Joyce’s Trieste years were fruitful, resulting in short stories, the brilliant novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, and the earliest pages of “Ulysses”, now considered one of the most important works of literature of the 20th century. Fellow Irishman John McCourt describes James Joyce as “the most celebrated, most influential and most controversial literary figure of the 20th century” in his book “The Years of Bloom” about Joyce’s years in Trieste, and he is one of the guests in the programme. Producer: Martha Hawley Broadcast: 2000 Radio Netherlands

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.