Friday, 18 July 2014

Sean - Lucia Joyce, Diving and Falling

Here's how the web works sometimes. In Sonya's post immediately below I clicked on the link to the Letters of Note blog. The post at the top currently details a letter from psychologist Carl Jung to writer James Joyce, regarding Jung's reaction to the book Ulysses. The post mentions that a couple of years after writing to Joyce, Jung actually treated Joyce's daughter Lucia. That fact reminded me of a radio doco I listened to while driving back from Fowlers Gap to Sydney. On the long flat road between Wilcannia and Cobar. The reception for Radio National actually disappeared before the program concluded. But what I heard was fascinating, it was about Lucia Joyce. I've been meaning to listen to it again, all the way through. Here's the link -

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/diving-and-falling/5489126

"Imagine being the daughter of one of the world's most experimental and famous writers. Imagine you have inherited some of your father's creativity and are determined to find a way to express this in some way. This is story of Lucia Joyce, the troubled and talented daughter of James Joyce. A story set against the fascinating backdrop of Europe between the World Wars."









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