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James Joyce: The Midwit Redditor's Favorite Author

>> No.23301750

>>23301743
James Joyce: The Filtered Faggot's Least Favorite Author

>> No.23301758
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>>23301750
Joycefag is angry that somebody pointed out that his favorite "author" is a pseud!

>> No.23301899

>>23301758
Somebodies angry Tyrone won’t let him have a turn

>> No.23301905

>>23301750
fpbp
/thread

>> No.23301926

I like Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>> No.23302112

>>23301926
Dubliners is fantastic, but did you really enjoy Portrait?
I found it very well written, but an absolute chore to get through
chapter 3 was exhausting - even if that was the purpose of it

>> No.23302121

Joyce is the worst of writer of his generation because he was the most optimistic about modernity of them all, and history has proven his attitude misguided.

>> No.23302122

>>23302112
Yes it made me cry repeatedly from the sheer pleasure it made me feel
Anyway the first time I read the hell sermon scenes I was in bed at 12 AM and it gave me nightmares

>> No.23302175

>>23302112
>>23302122
Samefag

>> No.23302188

>>23302175
Nope

>> No.23302215

>>23302121
Are you actually retarded? Half of Ulysses is just Irish wewuzzing and pining for freedom from modernity. Isn’t one of Dealadus’s main things that he feels shame as an academic for not knowing Irish?

>> No.23302226

>>23302215
Irish nationalism and liberation and any hope for it is a product of modernity. Joyce is also constantly expressing support for the sexual liberation, especially that of women, that modernity has provided.
Just look at the other major authors from the period. When you compare Joyce to someone like Kafka or Eliot, he's extremely optimistic.

>> No.23302227

>>23301743
finnegans wake is a good time you have to read it out aloud although

>> No.23302236

>>23302112
A chore to get through? It's an easy as fuck read...

>> No.23302238

>>23302121
What dumb fucking logic.

>> No.23302264

>>23302238
Why? One of the things that makes modernist writers so compelling is that their cynicism towards the forces of modernity makes their insights still relevant and emotionally resonant to those who live in the horrific product of those forces. I cannot help but feel disgust reading a man jerk off a the thought of everything that has made my life miserable.

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Russian demoralization shill, pay no attention guys, they all look like this.

>> No.23303160

>>23302236
it's not hard to understand, it's hard to engage with
I found it to be one of the lamest passages in any book I've ever read, and was counting the pages for it to be over already
same thing with that chapter in Dorian Gray where he tells about the jewelry he'd purchased

>> No.23303192

>>23301743
Redditors don't like the meme trilogy authors. They like young adult fiction, books they read in high school and maybe a couple books they saw in video essays like Blood Meridian and Notes From Underground.