Résumé du livre

The first edition of Chamber Music came out in 1907, following an arrangement done by Stanislaus Joyce, James's brother.

Nevertheless, James's initial arrangement, as we will show, had a very particular reason to be, and this is what we have reproduced here, just as conceived by Joyce in 1905.

Joyce had a very precise intention and the discovery of his original project gives these poems a far more coherent place in the mass of the Joycean corpus.

Here we have a perfect little novel that can be read as: from the birth of love, with its spiritual scope, to its carnal realization, that will lead, the passion waning, towards a possible friendship between the lovers, and to a nostalgic and tender understanding.