/lit/ - Literature

>>21020062
Let’s see who history vindicates, negro

What other Irish writers are/were catholic or were raised catholic? I’m sick of being excited about a writer being Irish just to find out he’s a fucking Protestant. I get that the King James Bible is legitimately great literature but Catholic values are literally the greatest ones humanity has ever devised

What is James Joyce’s best short story?

>>17375745
riverrun, past Eve and Adams, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth, Castle and Environs.

Rereading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man again, bringing back memories from high school. Gonna read Epitaph of a Small Winner next I think.

>>16662035
Ahh yes, yes my dear!

>Writes the first novel, which turns out to be the definitive novel.
>Writes the most complex book ever, which turns out to be the book that ends literary theory.
>Appreciates the beauty of female flatulence.

How can a single man be so right in every single aspect? Is he literally the best author who has ever existed?

>>13395969
Should I start with Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? Or just jump right into Ulysses. The description of the plot of Portrait doesn't entice me per se.
And over the years I've read most of the short stories that make up Dubliners (but probably not all--not really sure).

Why doesn't MacMc get more love here?

>"A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools"

>>9290232
there can't be people like faulkner and joyce anymore