The fragmentary dalliances of an older man for a young woman among Italian landscapes of love affairs and reminiscences. A little gem of Joycean narrative.

James Joyce (1882-1941). Irish writer especially known for his Ulysses, an archetypal work of a narrative style based on the interior monologue and a kaleidoscopic writing of a symbolist nature with abundant allusions and allegories, although he is also a poet and author of numerous works in prose of great testimonial value of an era and society, such as Dubliners or Portrait of a Teenage Artist, and of great avant-garde artistic value, such as Finnegans Wake. Criticized for being cryptic and insolent and applauded for being lucid and innovative, there is unanimity that this author will never leave the reader indifferent.

Giacomo Joyce is the title of this story about an older man falling in love with a young student and her dreams of evocative Italian settings. In it, aristocratic scenes, political allusions and personal references are combined with allegorical descriptions, everyday pictures and a naturalism that is sometimes sordid and sometimes sensual. A network of fragments of silences and threaded eloquences in which feeling, desire and fantasy are hidden and appear, through a poetic down on which a new facet of the literary warp will emerge.