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===First stay in Trieste=== Joyce moved to Trieste in March 1905 aged 23. He taught English at the Berlitz school.{{sfn|McCourt|1999a|p= [https://archive.org/details/jamesjoycepassio0000mcco/page/45 45]}} That June he published the satirical poem "Holy Office".{{sfnm|Bowker|2012|1p= [https://archive.org/details/jamesjoycenewbio0000bowk/page/147 147]|Davies|1982|2p= [https://archive.org/details/jamesjoyceportra1982davi/page/147 147]}} After Nora gave birth to their first child, Giorgio,{{efn|Joyce's son was named Giorgio when he was born, but later preferred to be called George.{{sfn|Fargnoli|Gillespie|1996|p=[https://archive.org/details/jamesjoycetozess0000farg_a0q1/page/118 118]}} }} on 27 July 1905,{{sfnm|Ellmann|1982|1p =[https://archive.org/details/jamesjoyce0000ellm_n2o5/page/204 204]|McCourt|2000|2p= [https://archive.org/details/yearsofbloomjame0000mcco/page/39 39]}} he convinced Stanislaus to move to Trieste and obtained a position for him at the Berlitz school. Stanislaus moved in with Joyce as soon as he arrived that October, although most of his salary went directly to supporting Joyce's family.{{sfnm|Bowker|2012|1pp= [https://archive.org/details/jamesjoycenewbio0000bowk/page/150 150β151]|Ellmann|1982|2pp= [https://archive.org/details/jamesjoyce0000ellm_n2o5/page/212 211β213]}} In February 1906, the Joyce household once more shared an apartment with the Francini Brunis.{{sfnm|Francini Bruni|1947 |1pp= [https://archive.org/details/portraitsofartis0000unse_p0n8/page/39 39β40]|Ellmann|1982|2p= [https://archive.org/details/jamesjoyce0000ellm_n2o5/page/214 214]|McCourt|2000|3p= [https://archive.org/details/yearsofbloomjame0000mcco/page/76 76]}} During this period Joyce completed 24 chapters of ''Stephen Hero''{{sfn|Ellmann1982|p= [https://archive.org/details/jamesjoyce0000ellm_n2o5/page/207 207]}} and all but the final story of ''Dubliners'',{{sfn|Groden|1984|pp= [https://archive.org/details/companiontojoyce00etat/page/80 80β81]}} but was unable to get ''Dubliners'' published. Although the London publisher [[Grant Richards (publisher)|Grant Richards]] had a contract with Joyce, the printers were unwilling to print passages they found controversial; English law could not protect them if brought to court for circulating indecent language.{{sfnm|Bowker|2012|p= [https://archive.org/details/jamesjoycenewbio0000bowk/page/152 152]|Hutton|2003|2pp= [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24295682?seq=4 498β500]}} Richards and Joyce tried to find a solution where the book could avoid legal liability while preserving Joyce's artistic integrity. As they negotiated, Richards began to scrutinise the stories more carefully. He became concerned that the book might damage his publishing house's reputation and eventually backed down from his agreement.{{sfn|Hutton|2003|p= [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24295682?seq=9 503]}} Trieste was Joyce's main residence until 1920;{{sfn|McCourt|1999a|pp= [https://archive.org/details/jamesjoycepassio0000mcco/page/44 44β45]}} he stayed temporarily in Rome, travelled to Dublin, and emigrated to Zurich during World War I, but Trieste became a second Dublin for him{{sfn|Frank|1926|p= [https://archive.org/details/portraitsofartis0000unse_p0n8/page/74 74]}} and played an important role in his development as a writer.{{sfnm|1a1=Hawley|1a2=McCourt|1y=2000|1loc= [https://www.radionetherlandsarchives.org/james-joyce-in-trieste 4:13β4:17]|2a1=Rocco-Bergera|2y=1972|2pp= [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25486995?&seq=1 342β349]}}{{efn|Joyce's Triestine colleague, the writer [[Italo Svevo]] states that with the exception of some stories of ''Dubliners'' and the "songs" of ''Chamber Music'', "All his other works down to Ulysses were born in Trieste".{{sfn|Svevo|1927|p= [https://archive.org/details/jamesjoyce0000svev/page/n7 1]}} }} He completed ''Dubliners,'' reworked ''Stephen Hero'' into ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'', wrote his only published play ''Exiles'' and decided to make ''Ulysses'' a full-length novel as he worked through his notes and jottings,{{sfn|Rocco-Bergera|1972|p= [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25486995?seq=3 344]}} working out the characters of Leopold and Molly Bloom in Trieste.{{sfn|Hawley|McCourt|2000|loc= [https://www.radionetherlandsarchives.org/james-joyce-in-trieste 1:20β1:30]}} Many of the novel's details were taken from Joyce's observation of the city and its people,{{sfn|Svevo|1927|p = [https://archive.org/details/jamesjoyce0000svev/page/n10 3]}} and some of its stylistic innovations appear to have been influenced by [[Futurism]].{{sfnm|del Greco Lobner|1985|1p= [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25477575 73]|McCourt|1999b|2p= [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25473995&seq1 85]}}{{efn|Regarding the role of Trieste on the creation of Ulysses, Svevo states "To the Irish critic [Earnest] Boyd, who asserted that ''Ulysses'' was merely the product of pre-war thought in Ireland, [[Valery Larbaud]] replied 'Yes, in so far as it came to maturity in Trieste'."{{sfn|Svevo|1927|pp = [https://archive.org/details/jamesjoyce0000svev/page/n11 3β4]}}}} There are even words of the Triestine dialect in ''Finnegans Wake''.{{sfnm|1a1=Crise|1a2=Rocco-Bergera|1a3=Dalton|1y=1969|1pp= [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25486807?&seq=1 65β69]|2a1=Zanotti|2y=2001|2p=[https://www.jstor.org/stable/25477816?seq=13 423]}} Joyce was introduced to the Greek Orthodox liturgy in Trieste. Under its influence, he rewrote his first short story and later drew on it in creating the liturgical parodies in ''Ulysses''.{{sfnm|Lang|1993|pp1=[https://archive.org/details/ulyssesirishgod0000lang/page/27 27β38, 115β16, 262]|McCourt|2000|2pp=60β62}}
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