| Mobile friendly quotes: > In 2004, Stephen Joyce threatened legal action against the Irish government when the Rejoyce Dublin 2004 festival proposed public reading of excerpts of Ulysses on Bloomsday. In 1988 he destroyed a collection of letters written by Lucia Joyce, his aunt. In 1989 he forced Brenda Maddox to delete a postscript concerning Lucia from her biography Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom. After 1995 he announced no permissions would be granted to quote from his grandfather's work. Libraries holding letters by James Joyce were unable to show them without permission. Versions of his work online were disallowed. Stephen Joyce claimed to be protecting his grandfather's and his family's reputation, but would sometimes grant permission to use material in exchange for fees that were often "extortionate". > [In Finnegans Wake] is a hint of intimacy between father and daughter here that borders on incest. Lucia once remarked to her father that no matter how many loves she had, she could never be unfaithful to him. > Even today among Joyceans this subject remains taboo. Regarding Lucia, academics have toed the Joyce party line - that she suffered fits, had uncontrollable sexual urges, and endlessly shouted forensic sexual details with involuntary abandon. For the sake of being allowed to quote from Joyce's papers, writers have repeatedly cast Lucia as the "problem", just as James and Nora always did. In effect, Lucia has been vaporised from history; memories of her obliterated. She is a "vanished woman". (HN tip: Don't format a quoted paragraph like code with leading spaces, put it all on one line with a single ">" in front, and a blank line between paragraphs. Also, "_" doesn't work for italics but "*" does.) |