Summary
Hanns Zischler, Sara Danius: Nose for the News: Short News of James Joyce
October 1904. Twenty-two-year-old James Joyce arrives in the 'remote' Pula on the Istrian peninsula
Nose for the News: Short News of James Joyce where he takes up the position of professor of English. His arrival is widely announced in the local newspaper. Joyce becomes a direct witness to a series of spectacular events: a pathetic staging of a celebration in honor of the assassinated Empress Sisi, a performance by a traveling cinema and a flood of photos and news from the Russo-Japanese war...
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