Was he into Nietzsche? What would Nietzsche have thought of Joyce?
neet would have thought he's pleb shit
>>8052686
Ulysses alone contains more vocabulary words (30,030) than the entire Shakespearean canon of thirty-eight plays and 150 sonnets (29,168).
fun fact
>>8052686
IIRC Joyce considered Nietzsche a very minor thinker and was mostly dismissive.
>>8052686
Joyce definitely read Nietzsche. I read the bio by Ellmann a few years ago. I don't think Nietzsche would have cared about Joyce t b h senpai. He was more of an ideas guy and would have probably kept on with his fedoratipping pal Dostoevsky.
>>8052686
I'm pretty sure Momus is his own favorite philosopher.
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I think Nietzsche's reaction to Joyce would be similar to his reaction to Sterne.
>In a book for free spirits one cannot avoid mention of Laurence Sterne, the man whom Goethe honoured as the freest spirit of his century. May he be satisfied with the honour of being called the freest writer of all times, in comparison with whom all others appear stiff, square toed, intolerant, and downright boorish!
Source: http://www.lexido.com/EBOOK_TEXTS/MISCELLANEOUS_MAXIMS_AND_OPINIONS_.aspx?S=113
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"In the last 200 years we haven't had a great thinker. My judgment is bold, since Kant is included. All the great thinkers of recent centuries from Kant to Benedetto Croce have only cultivated the garden." -James Joyce
Source: http://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/James-Joyce-Literary-Tastes.pdf
>>8052686
Obviously he read Nietzsche. He references Those Spoke Zarathrustra in "A Painful Case" in Dubliners.
I think his criticism of Nietzsche is what was somewhat implicit in that story. That being said, I think you can see the fingerprints of Nietzsche's thought on Dedalus's thought towards then end of Portrait, but I might just be projecting.
>>8052815
he also references Thus Spoke Zarathustra in the second chapter of Ulysses. OP read Joyce even once and you'll figure it out.
>"In the last 200 years we haven't had a great thinker. My judgment is bold, since Kant is
included."
Not much, seemingly.
>>8053032
>He must've read a lot of philosophy
!!!
>>8052732
buncha bullshit words
