Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake - Brossura

Shloss, Carol Loeb

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312422695 ISBN 13: 9780312422691

Casa editrice: Picador, 1900

Riassunto

A portrait of the daughter of James Joyce challenges negative perceptions, describing the creative bond she shared with her father that prompted her participation in modern dance, her father's efforts to cure her complex mental illness, and her influence on the writing of Finnegan's Wake. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Carol Loeb Shloss is an Acting Professor at Stanford University. She has written extensively on Joyce and other modernists. She divides her time between Stanford, California and the coast of Maine.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

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. "This is a story that was not supposed to be told", writes Shloss who transforms Lucia from the "mad daughter", and a footnote in her father's life, to a creative kindred spirit.

"Shloss's patient research expands what could have been a footnote in literary history into a tragedy of wasted promise. Shloss gives us a James Joyce we have never seen before."--Time

"[Carol Loeb Shloss] argues that not only was Lucia an extraordinary artist in her own right, she was also central to the creation of Finnegans Wake....Joyce scholars say that Ms. Shloss's work is important because Lucia was pivotal to Joyce's work."--The New York Times

"A sharply perceptive and disturbing meditation on the terrible price that great art often levies not only on the artist but on those closest to him....Lucia Joyce's story, which Shloss tells so movingly, not only wrings the heart but stirs one's anger."--John Banville, The New York Review of Books

"The most impressive feature of her book is the delicacy with which it handles the complex ambiguities of the Joyce-Lucia relationship....Shloss argues persuasively that the conclusion of Finnegan's Wake pays homage to Lucia, as Joyce poignantly seeks to make amends to his beloved daughter and convince her that all may still be well."--Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books

Carol Loeb Shloss is an Acting Professor at Stanford University. She has written extensively on Joyce and other modernists. She divides her time between Stanford, California and the coast of Maine.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0312422695
• ISBN 13: 9780312422691
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 572