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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on June 13, 2018, 01:38:18 PM

Title: "The strange case of the missing Joyce scholar'
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 13, 2018, 01:38:18 PM

A little early for Bloomsday but this is too good a piece not to share now.


https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/magazine/the-strange-case-of-the-missing-joyce-scholar.html

Title: Re: "The strange case of the missing Joyce scholar'
Post by: Steve H on June 13, 2018, 11:24:53 PM

Joyce's early stuff was good, but I gave up on 'Ulysses' about 100 pages in, and I've no intention of ever tackling 'Finnegan's Wake'.

Title: Re: "The strange case of the missing Joyce scholar'
Post by: Robbie on June 14, 2018, 08:36:37 PM

Quote from: Steve H on June 13, 2018, 11:24:53 PM

Joyce's early stuff was good, but I gave up on 'Ulysses' about 100 pages in,

I loved the Trojan wars meself!  ;)

 

Quote from: Steve H on June 13, 2018, 11:24:53 PM

and I've no intention of ever tackling 'Finnegan's Wake'.

Try reading it upside down.
(Rushdie is easier.)

Title: Re: "The strange case of the missing Joyce scholar'
Post by: Steve H on June 14, 2018, 11:28:46 PM

Quote from: Robbie on June 14, 2018, 08:36:37 PM

I loved the Trojan wars meself!  ;)

 

I gave up on Chapman's Homer as well, but I may give that another go one day.