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Oct 21, 2024 · But Joyce’s literary engagement with eye disease is equally enthralling. His fascination with vision was, much like his writing, complex and multilayered. Joyce’s personal experience of glaucoma is evident in his 1918 poem “Bahnhofstrasse” and in his 1939 experimental novel Finnegans Wake. In 1917, while walking down the Bahnhofstrasse ...
Mar 1, 1984 · According to Vogt's records, in june 1930 (following that surgery), Joyce (then 48 years old) had a visual acuity of 1/800 in the left eye and 1/30 in the right eye, although the right eye vision was decreasing because of a developing cataract. Both optic nerves, maculas, and peripheral retinas were normal.'.
- Edmund Sullivan
- 1984
Dec 15, 2011 · It was a feat of preternatural breadth, his undertaking of literary labours via a shroud of painful blindness. Joyce's struggle with his eyes led him to naming his daughter Lucia, after St Lucia, patron saint of the blind. A scrutiny of him as a young man attests to his longsightedness – his glasses magnify the Irish-blue eyes.
James Joyce had a terrible time with his eyes. When he was six years old he received his first set of eyeglasses, and when he was 25 he came down with his first case of iritis, a very painful and potentially blinding inflammation of the colored part of the eye, the iris. A short time later he named his newborn daugh ...
James Joyce , considered by many to be the greatest novelist of the 20th century, was plagued by severe eye problems for most of his adult life. The presence of iritis, glaucoma and cataracts was complicated by the complexity of his systemic medical conditions, his noncompliance with professional advice, and the state of the art of ophthalmology during his lifetime.
Jun 25, 2012 · June 25, 2012. The detritus of reality is the material of Joyce’s fiction. “If ‘Ulysses’ isn’t fit to read,” he once said, “life isn’t fit to live.”. Illustration by Delphine ...
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May 30, 1999 · One morning in March of 1923, despite upheavals, failing eyesight, and deteriorating health, Joyce took up some foolscap and commenced on his “Work in Progress.”. The book’s title ...
