My Brother's Keeper - Stanlislaus Joyce

James Joyce's Younger Brother Professor Stanislaus Joyce, was engaged on this memoir at the time of his death in 1955. It is therefore uncompleted, and ends at 1903; but, as it stands, it gives a very full account of the brothers' boyhood and youth in Ireland that could have been written by no-one else and suggests the relationship between them that continued in Trieste until the first World War.
Stanislaus Joyce perceived his brother's genius very early and as long as they were together observed and admired him-and saved him as far as possible from the results of his excesses. In spite of the acute differences between them Stanislaus found himself permanently bound to James, and his account of their family life in Dublin is moving and revealing, though often told in bitterness. But Stanislaus was a man of character and never a mere shadow.
T. S. Eliot concludes his preface with these words:
'Possessed as he was by the subject of his memoir, Stanislaus Joyce, under the exasperation of this thorn in his flesh, became himself a writer, and the author of this one book which is worthy to occupy a permanent place on the bookshelf beside the works of his brother.'
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