Do I really have to read all of these before Ulysses?

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Anonymous Sat May 18 11:46:44 2019 No.13137486 [Reply] [Original]

Do I really have to read all of these before Ulysses?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 18 11:52:55 2019 No.13137507 You def have to read the rest of Joyce up to that point as well as the odyssey but the others aren’t totally necessary. They just enhance the reading.

Anonymous Sat May 18 11:58:15 2019 No.13137524

No, you only need Don Gifford’s annotations. Actually, you don’t even have to read anything before tackling Finnegans Wake, the annotations from fweet.org would suffice. Hugh Kenner read FW before reading Ulysses, so don’t listen to people who say that you should read Joyce’s previous works in order to prepare for his later, more experimental style.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 18 12:01:04 2019 No.13137528 Also, Ulysses is mainly difficult because of the fragmented way it presents the inner thoughts of characters, not because of obscure literary allusions. Ulysses is actually not as referential as most people think.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 18 12:05:23 2019 No.13137550 >>13137528 telniarb desab

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