/lit/ - Literature

>>14310589
its just one big meme so shut up

>>14310589
England needed to promote an english language writer from Ireland to fight the irish language, so they picked this guy.
It's a meme.

>>14310660
>>14310616
>try to sabotage another nation's culture
>end up mogging yourself instead
Damn, that's pathetic

>>14310589
we have Salman Rushdie reeeeee

>>14310589
When you turn 21 actually read it

>>14310882
I finished this when I was 7. AMA

>>14310896
Did you understand it and are you still reading to this day and if so what are you currently reading?

>>14310589
>fart fetishist
Are you implying this is bad?

>>14310882
Why 21?

t. 20 yo zoomer

mikey pls

Irish and Americans are English anyway. Once a colony, always a colony

>>14311623
>colony
How do you say "colony" in english, Pierre?
LOL you don't even have an actual english word for that...
That's what happens when your country get irremediably crushed by some french-speaking Normans.

hijacking this thread.....brainlet gang assemble
anyone else here read Ulysses and for some reason decided to check out spraknotes at some more difficult chapter and discovered they'd been missing entire sections of the plot

I didn't even piece together the horse race subplot until it's mentioned explicitely by the Citizen

>>14312887
i haven't even read the book but kek

>>14310589
i unironically love Ulysses at the start, but ch 14, 15,16 and 17 suck so much dick i can rate whole book only 3 out of 5. I honestly think Joyce lost his talent by the end of life.

>>14312887
A few things I didn't pick up on:
>Stephen's sisters selling his books in Wandering Rocks
>the "Elijah is coming" in Wandering Rocks being the literal throwaway that Bloom tossed in the river
>Buck and Haines stole Stephen's key at the end of Oxen of the Sun (still don't know if this actually happened in the chapter or was just mentioned retrospectively in Eumaeus)

>>14312909
ples do not bully I am not asmart
there's another chapter in which every paragraph is in a different style of english from like the medieval to then-modern american and I'm not gonna mention more to avoid spoiling but many events and revelations happen therein and literally half of them flew over my head lel

>>14312957
did you rlaly not like the hospital chapter. again I didn't get half of it but the gimmick was fun at least
the red light disctrict shit goes on for way too many pages

>>14312957
Circe is the heart of the whole novel.

>>14311637
France is an English colony too, and was from well before the Norman 'conquest' which was a matter of internal politics

Arguing in nationalities is the stuff of lower part of the ego. If that. Do you really think that because I am English that I think like everybody else here? Reminds me of the mythos around Shakespeare in the US during the 19th century. Absolute nonsense. He is Shakespeare because he is universal, not because he is English.

Also Joyce is fucking awful to read. He writes so Irish.

How many people who post these kinds of threads are from Quebec?

QueBASED living rent free in angl*id heads

>>14313113
I'm >>14313096 American, I just don't know anyone else who obsesses over "Anglos" and would post on 4chan.

>>14310589
England, Ireland, it's all the same, we're all Bongs.

>>14313294
t. colonialist