My brother´s keeper: James Joyce´s early years

Stanislaus Joyce was more than his brother keeper: he was at various times his brother´s touchtone, conscience, and biggest fan. The two shared the same genius, the same childhood influences, the same literary instinct -but in Stanislaus that instinct was channeled into sober academic pursuit, while in James it envolved into gaiety, wild whimsy, and at times sodden despair.