Silence, exile, and cunning, James Joyce's desiderata for an artist's life, seemed to have been discovered by Heather with the rapidity and the inevitability of one who led a charmed existence.
A Friend from England, ch. 8
The famous Joyce quote, from
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, serves Brookner's purpose here, at least to an extent (more relevantly we might recall Jane in
A Family Romance, exiling herself to Dijon and 'stealthily' beginning to write); but it is still surprising to see such an unBrooknerian writer being recruited on to Brookner's team.
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