Lucia Joyce

Lucia JoyceLucia, the second child of JJ and Nora Barnacle, was born in Trieste where she did well at the local school. Her education was disrupted by family moves to Zurich and Paris. She studied music, and especially dance, in Paris and also in Salzburg with Raymond Duncan. Her considerable talent was recognised with a part in a film by Jean Renoir and, in 1928, with her being a member of an international touring troupe. However, her career came to an abrupt end the following year, whether due to tensions between herself and Nora, or her father's decision that she was not strong enough. Trying to occupy her productively, JJ commissioned her to design an alphabet of decorative initial letters. These were used to illustrate Pomes Penyeach (1932), The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies (1934) and A Chaucer A. B. C. (1936). Though her lettering was published in limited editions, it was obvious that her talent was not as a visual artist.At age 21, Lucia suffered when her infatuation with Samuel Beckett, who was briefly her father's secretary, was unrequited. By 1934 her worsening mental illness led to her being treated for schizophrenia by Carl Jung in Switzerland. She spent the years of the World War II confined in an asylum in Brittany. In 1951 she was transferred to St Andrew's Hospital, Northampton, England where she was regularly visited by her guardian Harriet Shaw Weaver. Lucia spent the remainder of her life in psychiatric care and died of a stroke in December 1982.In 1988, Stephen Joyce destroyed many personal letters written by Lucia, claiming that they had been written long after her parents' death and hence did not refer to them. Tim O'Neill露西娅·乔伊斯（Lucia Joyce）是JJ与诺拉·巴纳克尔的第二个孩子，出生于的里雅斯特，她在当地学校成绩优异。她的学业因全家迁居苏黎世与巴黎而中断。她曾在巴黎及萨尔茨堡随雷蒙德·邓肯学习音乐，尤以舞蹈见长。其出众的才华得到认可：曾参演让·雷诺阿执导的影片，并于1928年加入国际巡演剧团。然而次年她的事业戛然而止，诱因或为她与诺拉之间的紧张关系，或是她父亲认为她身心不足以支撑事业发展。为让她充实度日，JJ委托她设计一套装饰性首字母字体。这些字体被用于为《Pomes Penyeach》（1932）、《The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies》（1934）及《A Chaucer A. B. C.》（1936）配图。尽管她的字体以限量版形式出版，但显而易见，她的天赋并不在视觉艺术领域。 21岁时，露西娅因对塞缪尔·贝克特的单恋备受煎熬——贝克特曾短暂担任她父亲的秘书。至1934年，她的精神状况持续恶化，随后在瑞士由卡尔·荣格为其治疗精神分裂症。第二次世界大战期间，她被拘禁于布列塔尼的一家精神病院。1951年，她被转至英格兰北安普顿的圣安德鲁医院，其监护人哈丽特·肖·韦弗曾定期前往探望。露西娅的余生均在精神护理中度过，最终于1982年12月因中风逝世。 1988年，斯蒂芬·乔伊斯销毁了露西娅写下的多封私人信件，称这些信件写于其父母去世多年之后，因此与父母无关。 ——蒂姆·奥尼尔（Tim O'Neill）