Lucia Joyce: The Poignant and Dramatic Story of Joyce's Only Daughter - Couverture rigide

Loeb Schloss, Carol

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0747570337 ISBN 13 : 9780747570332

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004

Synopsis

'Whatever spark or gift I possess has been transmitted to Lucia and it has kindled a fire in her brain.' - James Joyce, 1934. Most accounts of James Joyce's family portray Lucia Joyce as the mad daughter of a man of genius, a difficult burden. But in this important new book, Carol Loeb Schloss reveals a different, more dramatic truth: her father loved Lucia, and they shared a deep creative bond. Lucia was born in a pauper's hospital and educated haphazardly across Europe as her penniless father pursued his art. She wanted to strike out on her own and in her twenties emerged, to Joyce's amazement, as a harbinger of expressive modern dance in Paris. He described her then as a wild, beautiful, 'fantastic being' whose mind was 'as clear and as unsparing as the lightning'. The family's only reader of Joyce, she was a child of the imaginative realms her father created, and even after emotional turmoil wrought havoc with her and she was hospitalized in the 1930s, he saw in her a life lived in tandem with his own. Though most of the documents about Lucia have been destroyed, Schloss painstakingly reconstructs the poignant complexities of her life - and with them a vital episode in the early history of psychiatry, for in Joyce's efforts to help her he sought the help of Europe's most advanced doctors, including Jung. In Lucia's world Schloss has also uncovered important material that deepens our understanding of "Finnegans Wake", the book that redefined modern literature.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carol Loeb Shloss teaches English at Stanford University. She has written extensively on Joyce and ohter modernists and is the author of three other books including a story of Flannery O'Connor. She lives in Palo Alto, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0747570337
• ISBN 13: 9780747570332
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 576
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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