Love Letters: James Joyce

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James Joyce

james joyce

The next of our featured love letters is written by Irish-born writer James Joyce (1882 - 1941), one of the most influential writers of the 20th Century. His seminal works include Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Finnegan's Wake. This letter is written in 1904 to his future wife Nora Barnacle.


My dear Nora,

It has just struck me. I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I hear nothing but your voice. I am like a fool hearing you call me 'Dear.' I offended two men today by leaving them coolly. I wanted to hear your voice, not theirs.

When I am with you I leave aside my contemptuous, suspicious nature. I wish I felt your head on my shoulder.

I think I will go to bed. I have been a half-hour writing this thing. Will you write something to me? I hope you will. How am I to sign myself? I won't sign anything at all, because I don't know what to sign myself.



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