Summary
Nuala O'Connor: Nora
Dublin, 1904 twenty-year-old Nora Joseph Barnacle works as a maid in a hotel, but on June 16 - Bloomsday - she will meet James Joyce, her fatal and lifelong love. Although Joyce did not want to officially legitimize their relationship, she went with him to the continent, to Pula, Trieste, Zurich, to dozens of addresses, and finally, at a mature age, they settled in Paris. Their life together on the edge of poverty is full of passion and misunderstanding, love and conflict, but her support for his literary work is decisive and unquestionable. And when Joyce drinks excessively for years, gambles, runs away from home, spends his last money on coffee parties, falls seriously ill, she believes in him, she is a firm support for the man who marked the literature of the 20th century with his genius. Nora is not only his wife, she is also the muse and model for the eternal Molly Bloom in the masterpiece of modern literature - Ulysses.
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