Joyce...Bruno...Ulysses
Journal: ODISEA Revista de estudios ingleses
Year: 2017

Abstract:Giordano Bruno has been a philosopher traditionally connected to James Joyce. Nevertheless, Bruno’s influence has been associated to Joyce’s last and enigmatic work, Finnegans Wake. Apart from this general consideration, this paper tries to prove that Joyce’s youth readings on Giordano Bruno were a serious infuence on his most famous work Ulysses. Although it might be true that Joyce did not read Bruno as a primary source –he, indeed wrote a review on a book on the Italian thinker, we c