/lit/ - Literature

>>15431589
Ulysses Annotated has very useful information if you want more of a deep dive, but you don't strictly need all that. To some extent you can just accept that the work is deeply referential, and that if you don't understand something, it may be referencing something from William Blake or whoever you don't know. Just save this image for a basic overview. It's not a completely perfect parallel or definitive, but it can help clear some hurdles.

In terms of general readiness, I would say: You should be able to read the first two chapters simply enough. It's nothing weird or some personal failing to struggle with chapter three, but it will require an attempt to feel it out on its own terms. If you can read that, you can read the rest of the book. You will just need to continue to take each chapter on its own terms. The last chapter might give you some trouble since it will forego a lot of sentence structure you will have learned, but it would pose similar difficulty even if you were a native English speaker. You just have to roll with it.