We all know that Ulysses has been very influential.
But what novels influenced Ulysses? Did it have any precursors?
>>7977045
the odyssey
infinite jest
>>7977045
>But what novels influenced Ulysses?
If you're strictly interested in the *novelists* that influenced Joyce, then they include the following:
DeFoe
Stendhal
Flaubert
Tolstoy
Jacobsen
D'Annunzio
Source: http://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/James-Joyce-Literary-Tastes.pdf
>>7977087
I'm not looking for the novelists Joyce liked. Ulysses's form is pretty radical, and I'm looking for the novels that influenced Joyce's execution of Ulysses specifically.
>>7977105A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>>7977105
The Bible
>>7977105
Defoe did interest him. So did Ovid, Dickens, Malory, etc. Read the Chapter of the Oxen of the Sun again and it will be very clear.
>>7977105
Ah, so you are literally retarded. Gotcha.
>>7977126
Why am I retarded? Certainly there can be overlap between (a) novelists Joyce liked and (b) novelists who influenced the writing of Ulysses, but just because Joyce liked a guy's novels doesn't mean Ulysses owes anything to him.
>>7977045
I really hope this is bait. If so, it's bretty good.
"I never got very much out of Ulysses. I think it’s an extraordinary book, but so much of it consists of rather lengthy demonstrations of how a novel ought not to be written, doesn’t it? He does show nearly every conceivable way it should not be written, and then goes on to show how it might be written." - Aldous Huxley
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4698/the-art-of-fiction-no-24-aldous-huxley
>>7977144
There are six people on the list, dude. I narrowed it down from potentially millions, to just six. How about you take it from here.
>>7977208
I admire the construction of Ulysses, but Aldous Huxley's right. Finnegans Wake had it even worse.
>>7977045
No, none.
>>7977218
Millions?
>>7977144
What a fucking waste of dubs. Just... Ugh.
Nope, Joyce pulled it all out of his ass. Hell, I don't even think Dublin exists.
>>7977208
>it has to be conventional to be good
wew lad
