James Joyce?
i bought Dubliners , Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man but idk which one to start with or if i should even start with one of these?
could anyone help?
>>7351797
Do: 49 → V. → GR → M&D
dubliners-> portrait -> ulysses -> finnegans wake
it's so obvious it's almost common sense
>>7351805
the main worry was to start with portrait or dubliners desu senpai
>>7351797
>i bought Dubliners , Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I tried all of these books and they felt like homework. I gave up quickly on all 3.
>>7351805
I did Ulysses → Portrait → Dubliners → Ulysses and have yet to start Finnegans.
Finnegans
Ulysses
Portrait
Dubliners
>>7351797
Pomes Penyeach.
>>7352620
>they felt like homework
Care to explain? I can see how Ulysses can seem like homework and Dubliners does have a very too-perfect feeling to it but Portrait of the artist would probably be considered good even by the plebbiest YA reader (as long as they have ~artistic ambitions~ of course).
>>7351797
Chronological. There's no other right answer.
>>7351797
what should I read before getting into Ulysses?
It's obvious that A Portrait and the Odyssey are needed, but what else?
>>7353453
Just read it. Do you think that Joyce ever thought 'Am I allowed to read this yet?'
>>7351797
Chronologically. Dubliners -> Portrait -> Ulysses.
>>7353453
dubliners, portrait, ulysses and hamlet, that's the basic stuff.
>>7353490
Uh that's probably all he thought about when he was a teenager honestly.that and hookers.
i've only read dubliners, and desu it put me off of joyce, not because it's a bad book but it was sooo boring. maybe it's just because i don't like various short stories tied in one book(i couldn't finsh the decameron too), but this book really felt as a chore, even though i appreciate what joyce was traying to say and understand that he needed for a book to be structured this way.
>>7353490
Joyce was actually extremely elitest