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Joyce himself commented that Lucia ‘loved her brother in an extraordinary way’, and she fell into shock and depression when he married. Francini Bruni, one of Joyce’s drinking mates, would sometimes clamber into Giorgio’s baby carriage, sucking a bottle of milk and squealing like a baby while Joyce trundled him about the room.
For Joyce, Lucia spoke the same language as he did. In 1934, Carl Jung treated Lucia. After their appointment, Joyce asked the Swiss doctor: “Doctor Jung, have you noticed that my daughter seems to be submerged in the same waters as me?” to which he answered: “Yes, but where you swim, she drowns.”
Aug 9, 1992 · James Joyce had two children. They had Italian names--Giorgio (born in 1905) and Lucia (born in 1907)--because Joyce and his common-law wife Nora had left their native Ireland for Trieste, where ...
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Jun 16, 2016 · Lucia’s story was particularly interesting because she very much wanted to be a modern woman, and yet her parents retained a strongly Irish sense of propriety – in spite of Joyce’s image as ...
A Joyce biographer has written that when Samuel Beckett rejected Lucia's romantic advances in 1930, it was in part because he thought there was a "strong unfulfilled erotic bond" between her...
Jul 26, 2016 · Nora Joyce: In the infamous soliloquy at the end of Ulysses, Molly (widely agreed to be based on Nora) rambles at length about her feelings of jealousy towards her daughter, Milly. Could Nora have...
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Aug 30, 2022 · Boyle knew Lucia on and off through her life; many years later, after Lucia’s death in 1983, Boyle had an exchange of letters about her with Joyce’s first major biographer, Richard Ellman; she told him how she and Samuel Beckett had spent an evening together sometime in 1932 when he tried to convince her that unhappiness and madness were ...
