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James Joyce, "Giacomo Joyce": a summary

He is called the Irish Chekhov. In his works the main characters are human feelings. A romantic and an idealist, he was incomparable in disputes, telling about the spiritual richness of his concept of creativity. This writer with his inner world resembles Don Quixote.

James Joyce is considered the creator of the modernist novel. He immortalized his name with the novel "Ulysses", called "great book" by another classic, Ernest Hemingway. He was by nature a creator and source of ideas. He studied the intellectualization of prose, psychology, philosophizing American writers-prose writers John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, William Faulkner.

History of essay writing

A brief summary of the contents of the book "Giacomo Joyce" becomes more understandable when associating it with events in the life of the writer himself. The work was written in 1914. Despite the fact that it refers to small forms of prose, it looks like a modernist style, characteristic of Joyce's novels.

The thirty-two-year-old author of the work, an Irish teacher, at that time earned, giving private English lessons in rich Italian homes. He proceeded to write his masterpiece "Ulysses", incidentally, mentioned in the essay "Giacomo Joyce."

Teaching, James suddenly for himself (oh, these women's tricks!) Fell in love with madness in a 16-year-old student, the daughter of the manufacturer Amalie Propper. More precisely, she herself provoked the writer. The girl for herself considered this relationship as another adventure and another woman's victory. And after a certain time, she was already ready to turn the affair with another person.

James hard suffered the collapse of his love (because he was sincere!). Perhaps, wanting to more easily cope with the spiritual crisis, the writer just created this essay about himself in love with himself. At the same time, he ironically changed his name to Giacomo, referring to the analogy with Casanova. Moreover, the plot of the essay developed in Italy, in the homeland of the legendary lover.

History of the edition

This is a small prose work - completely innovative, and the history of its publication is unique. Initially, the author did not want to publish "Giacomo Joyce".

Joyce described deeply personal circumstances in order to designate a certain milestone in his life. Therefore, the key phrase of the essay is the following: "Youth passes ... Youth passes: it is already the end. It will not happen again. You know it well. And then what? Write about it, damn it, write ..! "

For 27 years after writing, no one has heard anything about this masterpiece. The manuscript written by Joyce in the school notebook fell into the hands of one European collector (his name was not preserved). He, knowing the sense in his work, sold it for quite good money to a famous American collector. And the latter, in turn, published.

The essay is controversial

Despite the obvious success of this work in the West, a smaller portion of our readers still do not accept it. Taking up the reading of "Giacomo Joyce", they experience an acute dislike. The delicate, beautiful presentation by the writer of his sense of love to them, unused to the style of the psychological essay, seems depraved ... As an assessment, they quote in German from the same work: Aber das ist eine Schweinerei ("This is swinishness!")!

For them, in the foreground, is the very fact of adultery, and only his presence already overshadows the obvious artistic and educational value. A literary analogy arises. Obviously, such readers, like Watson acquainted with Holmes, simply made a mistake in the sign, counting plus a minus (the upbringing of feelings is confused with corruption).

Do we really need to harbor our feelings now, as in ancient times? But the world in the information age has changed globally! And how sad that many computer literate children in it first find out what porn is, without raising their own feelings beforehand.

Not for nothing in the course of foreign literature appeared "Giacomo Joyce"! The brief content of this prose work can be expressed in one sentence: the outbreak of love, the "way of the cross" of the lover, the bitterness of loss, the rebirth. There is a sublime, reverent attitude of Men to Women.

The student takes the initiative

The retelling of "Giacomo Joyce", of course, has its own peculiarities. After all, the work of an Irish writer is not at all subject to a linear quest-like logic. The structure of the essay is fragmentary, as the teacher's memories are fragmentary. The world of feelings is always intermittent!

The main character lives a human life, carrying out a lot of small mechanical actions (walks, eats, drinks). And the author rejects them, leaving only what is connected with his consciousness, soul. Only bright strokes remain, with which the picture of this essay is written. Bright. Original. Unrepeatable.

And it's so natural for the writer James Joyce! Like Anton Palovich, it is about feelings that the author of the essay "Giacomo Joyce" writes.

The summary of the content of the work begins with the impression of the teacher Joyce from his first acquaintance with his pupil. She, knowing about her beauty, manipulates him: the rise of eyelashes, sharpened nervous movements, a look at the lorgnette.

A fine Judaic woman "refined by a cutter of intrafamilial marriages from an ancient and noble family", "refined (again the author emphasizes its main feature, uses this word) and ripe", "similar to a weak elegant but very fragrant flower."

She longs for love. Her view - "the burning edge of a needle" - pervades the teacher.
The girl continues to slowly unleash the passion of James ("Giacomo Joyce" in the reduction, in our opinion, somewhat lost in the colors of her game). She behaves ambiguously, seeking a married man: he gives a flower to his daughter, while being insincere, lying. Her view is discordant with words.

Communication. Manipulation of feeling

James follows her charm. Reason, he realizes the impasse, the desperation of his feelings ("dark love"), but can not stop. It seems to him that in a mad, hopeless black-and-gray world he finally met a living soul. He calls out to her: "Do not die!" (Of course, this is not said in the literal sense, it means the desire of a lover, so that the girl does not lose her spirituality).

Soon their affinity also occurs. Her description is not in the essay "Giacomo Joyce." The summary in Russian only tells about the impressions of James from her body, when he helps the girl "to fasten the back of a black muslin dress", his sensations from the touch of her "cold fingers".

For two, everything was mixed up: passion, occupation, the sublime, what James talks about, and the charm, the sensuality of the heroine. Their next closeness is also deliberately omitted by the author. There is only a description of "before": as the girl walking along the corridor "slowly falls a dark knot of hair," and as then she asks the lover "to tie her hair in ... a normal knot."

However, the mistress is just playing with him in cat and mouse. She really does not have to James that deep feeling that he feels.

James is stripped of his will. A gift of parting

Their next meeting takes place in a "narrow Parisian room". A married man wants to finally break this sinful bond. But, despite the age, in the affairs of love the girl is many times stronger. She only needs to approach her, kiss her teacher with "tender, greedy lips."

He understands that he is weak-willed before her. "I'm lost!" - James writes. For him, the beloved now fills the whole world, including past and present. At the same time, he feels that the manipulating girl has already betrayed him (the author seems to see her among the blatant: "Not him, but Varrava! .."). The way of the cross of love is passed.

Realizing that he is at the top of mental suffering (after all, the connection with the mistress is already happening without his will, the latter simply breaks in her presence), the Irishman mentally calls to the aid of his wife (the writer's wife is called Nora).

However, the girl herself had already decided to break off relations when she felt that she had broken the heart of a man.

Approaches to the completion of the essay "Giacomo Joyce". A brief retelling of our original is doomed to be only a pale likeness of the original text ...

The mistress leaves, intentionally leaving James with a memory of herself: a hat with a scarlet flower in the fields and a folded umbrella. She sent them to him with a parcel. They lie near the piano, the keys of which she touched with her long, cool fingers.

They are so vivid for James in the middle of the "bare walls," "the daytime light of the day" ... What did she mean by sending her things? Most likely, it can be expressed thus: "Love me - love my umbrella!"

The gesture, of course, is eloquent ... (it is difficult to call this act differently). The historical analogy with the medieval shield of the victorious leader, nailed to the gates of the defeated year, suggests itself to him. This essay ends on this fragment.

Features of the genre

If we talk about the genre specificity of the work, then what is it? The genre of the psychological essay "Giacomo Joyce" is unaccustomed to the domestic reader! The summary outlined above does not provide answers to many questions.

It is unusual that the author talks about himself with himself, and the reader, from habit, perceives the work as a conversation between the author and the reader. Therefore, he does not feel the thread of contact with the essay.

In addition, the product reflects a maximum of feelings and a minimum of physical actions. And this is natural, because the essay is really primary feelings, and the actions of the two lovers are secondary. And this is also difficult to understand (we will lose it: how it is - neither the dates of birth, nor the residence permit, nor the name of the parents ...).

It's not even about the hypocrisy of the reader. After all, most of it is just not there. People are simple, good, "our". They usually read, with bated breath, about corruption, about crime, about war ... (so they were taught, so they read before them ...). "Well, life is life, and that's what we had," they will then say, tearing themselves away from the book.

Thinking, you want to object to them philosophically, echoing the famous song of Igor Talkov: "But life is not what you read!". After all, life must have a human face, remember the quotation of the Weiner brothers about the era of mercy! The Irish writer tells us about the spirituality that should be filled with his life, so that it is not empty. And although the format of this work is a small prose, it can be said that it is written in abbreviated form for the main "Giacomo Joyce."

And in this life, to which we subconsciously strive, "good feelings" must be awakened by the lyre of creativity!

Essay - the hymn of unrequited love

How wonderful it is when people fall in love! It is important to be able to recognize this feeling in yourself, protect, cherish, like an outlandish, exotic plant ... That is why the school curriculum appeared "Giacomo Joyce". A summary of the book is usually offered to study 11-graders. And how wonderful it is when love is adorned with such a culture of feelings, from which breathtaking, romantic and sublime. Such as in the essay "Giacomo Joyce."

Only realizing this idea, it is necessary to undertake reading this work.

Cheat sheet for the unprepared reader

However, this is not all ... The text, despite its compactness, is rather complicated. After all, the author's style of writing, the so-called flow of feelings, is the highest level of prose. And this is exactly what James Joyce wrote, "Giacomo Joyce." For novice readers, comprehension written in the style of psychological modernity does cause difficulties. Color, smells, sounds, contact sensations, symbolic artistic details play a great semantic role in it. The mass of conventions was put in his essay by James Joyce.

"Giacomo Joyce" you really grab if you read, knowing in advance the symbols of the author. In principle, it is enough to catch the semantic dynamics of colors. It has a special meaning. The author introduced the color symbolics in the essay, putting in accord with the shades of flowers in the guise of the main character her mental state. Let's present the information to the reader:

Colour

Value

Relevant quote

The black

Secret. A person must pass through the black (unknown) in order to liberate his essence. After all, only passing through black, he finds out how much white is in him.

"Under the arches of dark streets a black stone"

Gray

Used in a negative aspect. It symbolizes the termination of relations, the absence of the future, decay.

"In the gray twilight ... fragile rounded hips ..."

Purple

Symbolizes nobility and soreness

"A searing eye needle ... of purple pupils"

Pink, red

Love, passion

"... lessons, hours ... gradually her cheeks turn pink," "a lady's hat decorated with red flowers"

White (illumination, light)

Hope, purity, innocence

"White flash - a snowflake, a snowflake", "Light in the attic room," ... white lace "

Green

Jealousy

"A green ribbon in her hair and a dress with green embroidery"

Dark

Hopelessness

"Dark love, dark passion, darkness," ... voluptuous mouth: dark-blooded mollusks "

Yellow

Lies, deceit

"Strands of yellow yellowness on a wet forehead .."

Why is everything so encrypted? Yes, because the style is: modernism. And do not forget what we said before: in it the first violin is played by feelings. Their person primarily perceives through colors, smells, touches, symbols ... Just as the author wrote the essay "Giacomo Joyce".

Conclusion

Many discerning readers note the obvious romanticism of this psychological essay, in which the connection between form and content is seen: still, because true love is always romantic. The lover always idealizes the image of the beloved. Is it worth to doubt that in an essay, each lover will see his ...

However, love is a deeply personal feeling. It is better to find it immediately than to be in search of a lifetime ... Therefore, in addition to romanticism (without it it is impossible!), It is very important to take this life-forming attitude seriously. Well said about this sage philosopher: "Love is the beginning, the middle and the end, alpha and omega!"

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