On 23 June 1668 Giambattista Vico was born. The eighteenth-century Italian philosopher and rhetorician Giambattista Vico was born in Naples on 23 June 1668. The theory of history that Vico proposed in his best-known work, Scienza nuova (New Science, 1725), was of importance to Joyce in the composition of Finnegans Wake. Vico’s New Science (different […]
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On this day…22 June
On 22 June 1904 Joyce was involved in a fracas at St Stephen’s Green. Only a couple of days after he had collapsed drunk at a rehearsal of the National Theatre Society, Joyce was involved in a fracas at St Stephen’s Green that left him with a few superficial injuries. According to Ellmann, Joyce was […]
On this day…21 June
On 21 June 1921 Joyce was working on the first proofs of Ulysses. In a letter to French critic Valery Larbaud on 21 June 1921, Joyce wrote that he was working on the first proofs of Ulysses and trying to finish the ‘Ithaca’ episode. At the end of March 1921 Sylvia Beach had taken on […]
On this day…20 June
On 20 June 1904 Joyce collapsed, drunk, at a National Theatre Society rehearsal. On Monday 20 June 1904 Joyce turned up very drunk to attend a rehearsal of the National Theatre Society at the Camden Hall and collapsed in a passageway, after which some of the actors took him home. The National Theatre Society had […]
On this day…19 June
On 19 June 1926 Joyce attended the premiere of Antheil’s Ballet Mécanique. George Antheil (1900-1959) had come to Paris in 1923 determined to establish a reputation as the ‘bad boy of music.’ Sylvia Beach introduced him to Joyce and Antheil planned an opera based on the ‘Cyclops’ episode of Ulysses. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, […]