Lucia joyce to dance in the wake

pages : 24 cm

"Most accounts of James Joyce's family portray Lucia Joyce as the mad daughter of a man of genius, a difficult burden.

Pages: 24 cm "Most accounts of James Joyce's family portray Lucia Joyce as the mad daughter of a man of genius, a difficult burden.

Pages: 24 cm "Most accounts of James Joyce's family portray Lucia Joyce as the mad daughter of a man of genius, a difficult burden.

"Whatever spark or gift I possess has been transmitted to Lucia and it has kindled a fire in her brain." —James Joyce, Most accounts of James Joyce's family portray Lucia Joyce as the mad daughter of a man of genius, a difficult burden.

In this ground breaking work Carol Shloss shows the extraordinary influence that James Joyce's daughter Lucia exercised on her father's emotions and work.

Lucia liked to tease her father that her fame as a dancer would one day set her in the newspaper headlines above him – the notion was encouraged by an.

Referring to an account of a visit to Lucia by a friend of her childhood, DominiqueMaroger, in , two years before Lucia's death, Shloss sets out her own.

But in this important new book, Carol Loeb Shloss reveals a different, more dramatic truth: Lucia's father not only loved her but shared with her a deep creative bond. His daughter, Joyce wrote, had a mind "as clear and as unsparing as the lightning."" "Born at a pauper's hospital in Trieste in , educated haphazardly in Italy, Switzerland, and Paris as her penniless father pursued his art, Lucia was determined to strike out on her own.

She chose dance as her medium, pursuing her studies in an art form very different from the literary ones celebrated in the Joyce circle and emerging, to Joyce's amazement, as a harbinger of modern expressive dance in Paris.

He described her then as a wild, beautiful, "fantastic being" who spoke to "a curious abbreviated language of her own" that he instinctively understood - for in