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James Joyce Died Today in 1941
Nice note at The Barnes & Noble Review about the last years of Joyce’s life:
Among those consulted was Carl Jung, whose attempts to treat Lucia in the mid-1930s had ended with the double diagnosis that she and her father were like two people heading to the bottom of a river, she falling and he diving. Joyce had a psychological style that was “definitely schizophrenic,” said Jung, though he transformed it by genius: “In any other time of the past Joyce’s work would never have reached the printer, but in our blessed XXth century it is a message, though not yet understood.”
Joyce was in the home stretch on the seventeen-year Wake at this point, [writing] “Having written Ulysses about the day, I wanted to write this book about the night. . . . Since 1922 my book has been a greater reality for me than reality.”
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