Previewing the contents of an episode dedicated to early twentieth-century Trieste of the Rai5 program L'atalante che non c'è which will be broadcast this spring, Claudio Magris presented the relationship between Italo Svevo and James Joyce in the columns of the Corriere della Sera on Sunday 16 January 2022.

The latter gave Ettore Schmitz lessons in English and the most important literary works of both did not immediately meet with success.