Life
1884-1955, b. 17 Dec.; godf. William O’Connell and Elizabeth Conway;
Dublin, br. of James Joyce (‘my whetstone’, and Maurice, in
Stephen Hero); joined James’s household in 1905; English language
teacher, and later prof. in University of Trieste; arrested as an outspoken
irredentist after promenade and remarks about state of fortifications,
9 Jan. 1914; interned at Katzenau, nr. Linz until 1918, moving in with
the Schaureks at 2 via Sanita afterwards; assumed permanent teaching position
at University of Trieste (Scuola Commerciale); persistently asked Joyce
to acknowledge that many of the ideas for Ulysses were originally
his; expressed intense dislike for heartless and unsentimental tendencies
of “Circe” and “Penelope”; m. Nelly Lichtensteiger,
Nov. 1927; expelled from Italy, 1936; published Recollections of James
Joyce (1950); his My Brother’s Keeper (1957), issued
with a preface by T. S. Eliot, and Dublin Diary (1962) were both
published posthumously; Stanislaus Joyce was engaged with Ellsworth Mason
in editing reviews of James Joyce reviews and lectures of James Joyce
when he died, the task being completed by Mason and Ellmann (1959); d.
16 June [‘Bloomsday’].
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Works
‘The Background to Dubliners’, Listener, Vol.
51, No. 1308, 25 March 1954, pp.526-27; My Brother’s Keeper
(London: Faber & Faber 1957; NY: Viking Press 1958); Dublin Diary
of Stanislaus Joyce (1962); and eorge H. Healey, ed., The Complete
Diary of Stanislaus Joyce (NY: Ithaca; London: Cornell UP 1971); Le
Journal de Dublin, par Stanislaus Joyce, trad. be l’Anglais par
Marie Tadie (Paris: Gallimard 1967), 180pp.; see also John Ryan, A
Bash in the Tunnel (1970).
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Criticism
Richard
Ellmann, James Joyce (OUP 1959 & Edns.).
Stan Gebler Davies, James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist (London: David Poynter 1975).
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Notes
Brother's keeper: Stanislaus is portrayed in caricature as the
priestly Jaun in Finnegans Wake, where that character is called
a ‘brotherkeeper’ (FW433) and the ‘altar’s ego’
of Shem (FW463). Note that while these epithets are quoted in W. Y. Tindall,
A Reader’s Guide to James Joyce (NY 1959; London 1960), the
identity with Stanislaus is not expressly urged (p.290).
Party piece: Stanislaus’s party piece in childhood was “Houlihan’s Cake”, while James Joyce’s was “Finnegan’s Wake” (Ellmann, James Joyce, 1966 Edn., p.26; cited in Hemphill, op. cit., supra.)
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