James Joyce statue

Handsome guy but not too chatty

Just James, surrounded by a beautiful scenery.

Nice to see

A statue of James Joyce who lived many years in Trieste. It looks like he is just walking through the bridge.

Nothing to highlight but the canals and location of the statue

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, perhaps most prominently stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, his published letters and occasional journalism. Joyce was born in 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin, into a middle-class family on the way down. A brilliant student, he briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School before excelling at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's alcoholism and unpredictable finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin. In 1904, in his early twenties, Joyce emigrated permanently to continental Europe with his partner (and later wife) Nora Barnacle. They lived in Trieste, Paris and Zurich. Though most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce's fictional universe centres on Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of Ulysses, he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal."

Walking over the Ponte Rosso bridge over the Canal Grande we encounter an interesting statue. This beautiful statue is devoted to James Joyce (a famous Irish writer), made by sculptor from Trieste Nino Spagnoli. The statue was placed on the bridge in 2004 to remember the centenary of Joyce's arrival in Trieste. James Joyce in Trieste is coming to work like an English teacher at the Berlitz School. James Joyce along with girlfriend Nora Barnacle ( He married her in 1931), reaches Trieste and finds that the place in the scool is not free. They ( the institute for the foreign languages ) send him to Pula on the south of the Istrian peninsula to teach english language, where he lives in bad conditions days and finally returns to Trieste in 1905. Returning to Trieste in the Berlitz school, begins one of the most fruitful periods for his literary production. During his stay in the city, Joyce completes the collection of short stories "Dubliners", publishes a second draft of the collection of poems "Chamber Music", and starts, in addition to the "Exiles" drama, the work that will give international fame:" Ulysses".

Great location. Free to visit the statue of James Joyce half way from the river. There’s a cafe bar of James Joyce across the river.