/lit/ - Literature

>>17606765
Her work is more accessible. Everything is on the page and on its own page. She never overloads the mind's eye which makes for a much smoother experience. Anyone can pick up any of her books and finish it, at worst, in a weekend. And there's never anything to discuss about them, so everyone is always simpatico—that is until the Joyceans come stomping in.

>>17606783
Unfortunately there isn't a single word you could remove.

>>17606873
This is why they get compared. No one was ever showed up as hard in English lit.

>>17442889
What do you want to know? His pen name is that of a famouse Dublin murderer. Interesting because Bloom is also the name of a famous Dublin murderer. What did Joyce mean by this?

Bloom's mother is Ellen Bloom (née Higgins)... and to make it worse he's been baptized thrice. Joyce set it up like this to make him the ultimate outsider: Rejected by the micks for appearing jewish, rejected by Jews for being a goyimuttronsity.

What the FUCK was his problem?

I hope you prefer ">le pathetic cuckold"

>the human condition

What do people mean by this?

>Main character is a Jew cuck

Degeneracy: the novel