Ulysses (1922)

Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Alas I have no inner organs of beasts and foul to relish.

Been a while since I had any offal actually. That one sentence got me into offal for a few months, much to my then roommates' quiet disgust.
 
jenks

jenks

thread death
On my way to Vienna from Paris I’ve stopped off in Zurich. I expected a few more memorials considering Joyce lived here for so long. A plaque on a house he lived in for a year, a bit on a wall where the two rivers meet and his grave.
 

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Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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Had a go at reading The Dead the other day but it was really really boring after reading Ulysees so I gave up after a few pages.
 
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version

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"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
 
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version

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You'll end up reading it at some point and enjoy it, like you did with Ulysses after rubbishing it.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

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I love 'The Dead', and did a long in-depth essay about it for English language module undergraduate, relating to what linguists (and probably non linguists tbf) call 'dead metaphors'. I loved it the first time around because it reminded me, sentimentally, of family gatherings past, and then of course the extraordinary transition into transcendence of the last few pages—but studying it in depth revealed ingenuity that had passed me by, or seeped in unconsciously, when I was reading it the first time.

I remember one of the first sentences in the story is "XXX was literally run off her feet" and some critic or commentator alerted me to this not being the 'objective' omniscient narrator speaking but the maid.

I think Edmund Wilson talks about how Joyce was shaping language to character and incident even in these more 'straightforward' stories and that reaches its ultimate expression in 'ulysses' with the stream of consciousness of course and even the seemingly unfitting parodic styles in e.g. 'oxen' that are shaped to the incidents in the maternity hospital (e.g. bloom's de quincean vision as he stares at the beer bottle)
 
jenks

jenks

thread death
I wrote a long post replying to this about why this kind of thing really pisses me off but I cannot be bothered - there’s already enough philistinism on here.
 
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