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Lucia Joyce: The Poignant and Dramatic Story of Joyce's Only Daughter (Hardcover)

by Carol Loeb Schloss (Author) "The story begins with the birth of a girl child in a pauper's hospital ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (3 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747570337
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747570332
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.2 x 5.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 488,328 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A brilliant and moving biography' Independent 'Shloss's work is important because Lucia was pivotal to Joyce's work Shloss was able to incorporate new details about Lucia in her new book, including previously unpublished photographs' New York Times 'As a writer on dance in the 1920s and on a father's limitless love for his child, Shloss is convincing and impressive' Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times 'Shloss gives us a James Joyce we have never seen before' Time Magazine --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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‘Impeccably researched, meticulously detailed and full of fascinating new material’ --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sadness for Lucia, 31 Jul 2004
By GraLeabhar "Gra" (Donegal,Ireland) - See all my reviews
This is a wonderful book..holds you to the end. Very well written. detailed...feel sad for Lucia..Joyce did all he could for his daughter..son Georgio and Nora do not come out of it well..A tragedy that Lucia's letters were destroyed as many of them were to her father.Biographies only mention Lucia in passing, but this book tells us of her dancing in Paris when younger, and a very interesting account of her time in Ireland, where she visited places James had in his youth.Very close to James, but rift with Nora ( her mother).Very moving account of JJ trying to get his family to Zurich, when war began and unable to get a permit for Lucia.He died the next year and she saw his death in the paper, in a nursing home. Many references to Lucia in Finnegan's Wake.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Putting Lucia Joyce Centre Stage, 23 Feb 2006
This review is from: Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake (Paperback)
This is a detailed study of Lucia Joyce's life. It suggests that she was just as talented and creative as her father, James; Lucia’s artistic medium was dancing rather than writing. However her creative talent was stunted at an early age due to the fact that her parents kept moving and Lucia was prevented from either acting in the capacity of student or teacher of dance. Shloss suggests that Lucia and her father shared an intimate relationship of mind; they both knew and understood how the other thought.

Shloss provides evidence to suggest that the character Issy in Finnegans Wake was based on Lucia and further argues that Lucia was Joyce’s muse and the main source of his inspiration. From her early twenties Lucia was dogged with mental illness and here is where the waters become a little muddied. Was her illness due to the bohemian lifestyle of her parents? After all, Joyce and Nora remained unmarried until their children grew up; they trailed around Europe from Paris to Trieste and mostly lived in poverty. Was Lucia the sacrificial lamb? Was she sacrificed on the high-altar of her father’s art? Shloss thinks that indeed she was. By the time Joyce realised that his daughter was ill, the harm had already been done, it was too late. Lucia spent most of her adult life in homes for the mentally ill and here is where the story becomes heart breaking. Joyce remained loyal to his daughter and did everything in his power to ensure that, not only did she get the best treatment available but also that she express her creative talents by writing and illustrating books. At that time the knowledge and treatment of mental illness was in its infancy and the treatments that she received seemed to do her more harm than good.

Tragically the Second World War dealt the last savage blow by separating father from daughter. Official bureaucracy prevented Lucia from being moved to Switzerland where her father awaited her. It is not known whether she knew that her father was trying to have her moved. When she heard that he had died, she felt that he was watching over her from beneath the earth. Sadly but perhaps understandably neither her mother nor her brother Giorgio maintained much contact with her. Lucia was prone to violent outbursts of rage from an early age, which she directed at her mother; she saved the best of herself for her father.

This book reads like a Greek tragedy. Shloss is to be commended for her thorough and meticulous research. It is deep and laden with references. She provides the context and background of Lucia’s life - a life rich in relationships – family, friends and lovers. Above all the book emphasises the undying love and devotion of a father for his daughter.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Soul of the Wake, 24 Jan 2008
This review is from: Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake (Hardcover)
I find it hard to take this book seriously as an analysis of Lucia Joyce. I don't understand why the narrative more or less finishes after the war, and yet Lucia lived decades longer. Are no details available from her post war doctors? Surely there must be. All this seems to be ignored.
Shloss seems to treat Lucia as a character in a book rather than a real person (rather as Ellmann gives you a long character analysis from time to time which is all very interesting until you realise that you haven't had a footnote for ages and it is all speculation...).
That said, her intriguing claim that Lucia is the soul walled up in the Wake interested me very much. I get into Joyce every now and than but always feel he was very clever but so what? There is no life, no soul in his writing, it's just like a crossword puzzle. But the premise that somehow his daughter was sacrificed to his work was very interesting and prompted me to another Wake reread with renewed vigour. So for that I'll give the book some credit, and if Shloss has integrity she will be happy with that.
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