Re: humani nil a me alienum puto

Jim,

You write:

"Naturally, the entire Joyce/Nora movie revolved around those letters."

I think this is a bit of an overstatement. Clearly, Joyce's attitudes
towards sex and his manipulation of his relationship with Nora were a large part of
the film. And yes, the letters were cited at several moments. But it seemed
to me that the film, for the most part, was about Nora's struggles -- with her
own family, with the Joyce family, with living as a woman in the artist's
community in Trieste, with the way she was living and dealing with a strangely
jealous writer for a husband, and later the way she was dealing with motherhood
and a separation from the man she loved. I think the movie, made by a young
Irish woman director, had a lot more to do with Nora and how she coped (or
failed, sometimes, to cope) with the entire experience given her own personal
history than it did with simply her love life or her love of erotographology.

Of course, you may just be remembering the juicy bits. :)

All the best,

--John

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Received on Sun Aug 24 15:48:18 2003