Lucia Joyce: To Dance In The Wake
Book ID/图书代码： 04640004B00070
English Summary/英文概要： “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 Shloss 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, Shloss 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 Shloss has also uncovered important material that deepens our understanding of Finnegans Wake, the book that redefined modern literature.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 0464.00 2003 32开 560页
许多人都把卢西娅-乔伊斯说成是一个天才男人詹姆斯-乔伊斯的发疯女儿，但本书的作者叙述了一个不同的故事：父亲不仅很爱他的女儿，而且两人间还有一种创造性的纽带紧紧相连。卢西娅出生在贫民医院里，从小随穷父亲在欧洲各地奔波，没受到什么教育，决心自己闯出一条路来。她选择舞蹈作为表现形式，成为巴黎现代舞的先驱。20多岁时，她被送进精神病院。在此以前，她的父亲曾带着她在欧洲到处求医，还到过著名心理学家荣格的诊所。她终于成为她父亲的悲剧性的缪斯女神。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Carol Loeb Shloss在斯坦福大学教英语，并在西北大学任爱尔兰文学访问教授，写过不少关于乔伊斯的文章，并写过3本书。
Carol Loeb Shloss, who has written extensively on Joyce and other modernists, is the author of three other books, including a study of Flannery O’Conner. In 2003 she served as Segal Visiting professor in Irish Literature ar Northwestern University.
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