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.