Stanislaus Joyce (1884-1955) almost three years younger than his brother, followed intellectual command of James in many ways, to the point that James had once suggested to moderate somewhat rebellion against the church, in the interest of family harmony. My brother James Joyce is based on detailed memories of Stanislaus, supported in his journal faithfully throughout his life and where he wrote down the conversations between the two, acute observations of James and the tragic events of family life. Stanislaus kept the humor and the finances of his brother and gave encouragement when editors rejected their original. His exile from Ireland was much more severe than that of his brother. For forty-nine years he never again enter an English speaking country. Early in Trieste, the University ignored him, but after a while became a well known and popular teacher. His opposition to Mussolini's regime earned him dismissal and expulsion Later in 1936, thanks to the intervention of a friend, in Rome, he regained his position in Trieste. The brothers met only three times since 1920 These last few games were painful to the author of this book. However they continued to be written and it is understandable that the last words he wrote James, five days before his death in Zurich in 1941, have been for Stanislaus. The news of James' death affected him physically and his health began to deteriorate until he died in Trieste, at sixty leaving this unfinished book. There is something almost monumental integrity of Cato in the life of Stanislaus Joyce. Unable to accept but honest, opposed both imperial authority and the fascists. In its liberal and anticlerical opposition was a Democratic School 1848 also fought for greater individual freedom, trying to have a distinct personality of his brother.