On 13 September 1928 Ettore Schmitz died. Schmitz (Italo Svevo) and his wife Livia had been passengers in a car that crashed into a tree near Treviso, not far from Venice. They were taken to the hospital in Motto di Livenza where Schmitz died from his injuries on 13 September. Joyce heard the news of […]
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On this day…13 November
On 13 November 1938 Joyce finished writing Finnegans Wake. On the evening of Sunday 13 November 1938 Joyce sent a telegram to Harriet Weaver to announce that he had finished writing Work in Progress. Though there was still a lot of work to do with correcting proofs, the book that Joyce had been working on […]