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I shall reveal the truth about JAMES JOYCE: he was a fraud.
1. Finnegan's wake consists entirely of references
2. Dubliners has the same themes in all of its short stories
3. Ulysses was Joyce ripping of the Iliad to his own history
The truth is undeniable. He is also of low character, evidenced by his sexual activities.

>browse /lit/
>board flooded with mystics and zealots
>leave
>come back
>board flooded with reddit tier atheist pseuds
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what causes this?

>>16055313
Oh, excuse me, I believe I have mistaken you for a, er, excuse me sir...

Why was he so obsessed with anal sex? Was it a Irish Catholic thing?

Joyce preferred Ibsen to Shakespeare.

>family finds the fart letters

Is this the best place on the Internet to discuss literature?

Rec me short story collections
>Have read
Dubliners
Ficciones
>Plan to read
Nine Stories
Flannery O'Connor Complete Stories
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Arabian Nights
Fitzgerald's stories (don't know which collection)
Hemingway's stories (ditto)

Are Alice Munro and Ray Bradbury's short stories worth a look? I don't know which Munro collection to go for and The Martian Chronicles seems a bit Reddit

Mandatory schooling and the stigma against manual work has destroyed the perception of knowledge. Young people see knowledge as a means to an end. Schools teach in a disgusting, cynical manner that you need to know this material not for the sake of improving your knowledge but for the privilege of being able to work your life away. People who hate reading can succeed in English. Students who are interested in science and already know things do not get an inherent advantage. Many of the most successful students only learn from school, and only because they have to. Capitalism has destroyed the whole idea of the pursuit of knowledge, as well as seemingly positive phrases like 'knowledge is power'. Fuck power, I want knowledge. If you learn as a means to an end, you are a part of the collapse of intellect. Every student who gets straight As but only gives a shit about football and Fortnite is a cancer.
Books for this feel?

I have never read any of the famously 'hard' books, which is best to start with? Off the top of my head I mean
>Ulysses
>FinWake
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Infinite Jest
>Sound and the Fury
>Moby Dick
>The Recognitions
>Petersburg
>The Magic Mountain
>In Search of Lost Time
>Women and Men
>2666

I want to start reading more plays, what would /lit/ recommend?

Is any author more inextricably tied to one city than Joyce and Dublin? Somewhat ironic considering how major a theme paralysis is in Dubliners

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>>11904635
Joyce is unequivocally the most Marxist writer since Marx and also one of the best. I’ve been reading tons of Joyce alongside Capital. Ulysses basically functions as a direct commentary on and companion to Capital anyways

This is pretty common knowledge but some people seem to not realize it. Need evidence? Here’s his paraphrase of Karl Marx himself:

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”

I know some of you may be surprised about this revelation, given joyce’s notoriety for staying clear of just about every popular movement during his lifetime, but it’s nevertheless true. James Joyce was a Marxist.

>>11902104
Interesting fact:

James Joyce was a Utilitarian and member of the Irish Utilitarian Association and most of his stories are actually about utilitarianism.

How to understand him ?

>>11841123
Who also "Brap Sniffer" here?

>My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter. I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked you for so long backwards. It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.

>You say when I go back you will suck me off and you want me to lick your cunt, you little depraved blackguard. I hope you will surprise me some time when I am asleep dressed, steal over to me with a whore’s glow in your slumberous eyes, gently undo button after button in the fly of my trousers and gently take out your lover’s fat mickey, lap it up in your moist mouth and suck away at it till it gets fatter and stiffer and comes off in your mouth. Sometimes too I shall surprise you asleep, lift up your skirts and open your drawers gently, then lie down gently by you and begin to lick lazily round your bush. You will begin to stir uneasily then I will lick the lips of my darling’s cunt. You will begin to groan and grunt and sigh and fart with lust in your sleep. Then I will lick up faster and faster like a ravenous dog until your cunt is a mass of slime and your body wriggling wildly.

>Goodnight, my little farting Nora, my dirty little fuckbird! There is one lovely word, darling, you have underlined to make me pull myself off better. Write me more about that and yourself, sweetly, dirtier, dirtier.
james.. easy on the braps...

Do any English-speaking authors other than pic related use dashes to denote characters speaking? I know plenty of languages use that but I'm just wondering if any other authors do that in English

>fuckbuddy found the fart fan fiction

What are the best short stories of all time? Pic probably related

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/david-foster-wallace-in-the-metoo-era-a-conversation-with-clare-hayes-brady/
Is this, dare I say it, the worst article ever written?

Rank his works, you must have read at least Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses to reply