Monday, October 5, 2009

Directions: Joyce's Shelves in Zurich

Interesting directions from the fascinating Inverted Volumes, Improperly Arranged: James Joyce and His Trieste Library (Michael Patrick Gillespie, 1983). A few of the texts owned by Joyce in Zurich:
  • Sanine, Mikhail Artzybashev [link goes to text of the same translation that Joyce owned]
  • A Woman of Thirty, apparently the only Balzac novel Joyce owned [link goes to text of the same translation that Joyce owned]
  • Sheet music for Symphonies 1 - 3, 7 - 9 and Fidelio, by Beethoven
  • The Meaning of War, Henri Bergson
  • Limehouse Nights, Thomas Burke
  • 2 copies of The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campannella, both in the original Italian
  • an Italian translation of The Dog's Colloquy by Cervantes

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