/lit/ - Literature

Did everyone in Dublin actually know each other back in the 1920's? Bloom literally just goes for a walk on the street and recognizes everyone he meets.

What is it with literature's need to intentionally reference other literature? Are any books able to actually avoid this?

>Ulysses
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300/
https://www.joyceproject.com/
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ulysses_(1922)
https://www.ulyssesguide.com

>The Complete James Joyce .epub
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=174940

https://www.26reads.com/author/james-joyce

Telemachus: 7174 words; 1 day
Nestor: 4420 words; 1 day
Proteus: 5665 words; 2 days
Calypso: 5882 words; 1 day
Lotus-eaters: 6370 words; 1 day
Hades: 10917 words; 2 days
Æolus: 10046 words; 2 days
Læstrygonians: 12619 words; 2 days
Scylla and Charybdis: 11839 words; 3 days
Wandering Rocks: 12559 words; 3 days
Sirens: 12221 words; 4 days
Cyclops: 21259 words; 5 days
Nausicaa: 16652 words; 4 days
Oxen of the Sun: 20286 words; 6 days
Circe: 38319 words; 7 days
Eumæus: 22647 words; 4 days
Ithaca: 22403 words; 6 days
Penelope: 24059 words; 6 days

>Ulysses
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300/
https://www.joyceproject.com/
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ulysses_(1922)
https://www.ulyssesguide.com

>The Complete James Joyce .epub
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=174940

https://www.26reads.com/author/james-joyce

Telemachus: 7174 words; 1 day
Nestor: 4420 words; 1 day
Proteus: 5665 words; 2 days
Calypso: 5882 words; 1 day
Lotus-eaters: 6370 words; 1 day
Hades: 10917 words; 2 days
Æolus: 10046 words; 2 days
Læstrygonians: 12619 words; 2 days
Scylla and Charybdis: 11839 words; 3 days
Wandering Rocks: 12559 words; 3 days
Sirens: 12221 words; 4 days
Cyclops: 21259 words; 5 days
Nausicaa: 16652 words; 4 days
Oxen of the Sun: 20286 words; 6 days
Circe: 38319 words; 7 days
Eumæus: 22647 words; 4 days
Ithaca: 22403 words; 6 days
Penelope: 24059 words; 6 days

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Why didn't you tell me how similar to dfw this is? Would've read it sooner. What else didn't you tell me? Also general Ulysses thread I guess.
>Did, are you or will you read(ing) it?
>How do you like it so far?
>What's so funny about U.p.: up

>dude it's so hard because you need to understand different writing styles and a few references
Really?

Wandering Rocks was so kino, bros. Makes me want to go outside and talk to people.

How do I get as much from picrel as possible? I’ve already finished it once, now I’m ready to take a more analytical look.

Just finished Aeolus. Can someone explain Stephen's 'parable of the plums'? The fuck was he talking about?

>Galleys of the Lochlanns ran here to beach, in quest of prey, their bloodbeaked prows riding low on a molten pewter surf. Dane vikings, torcs of tomahawks aglitter on their breasts when Malachi wore the collar of gold. A school of turlehide whales stranded in hot noon, spouting, hobbling in the shallows. Then from the starving cagework city a horde of jerkined dwarfs, my people, with flayers’ knives, running, scaling, hacking in green blubbery whalemeat. Famine, plague and slaughters. Their blood is in me, their lusts my waves. I moved among them on the frozen Liffey, that I, a changeling, among the spluttering resin fires. I spoke to no-one: none to me.

I'm only on chapter 3, but this passage was intriguing to me. Why does Stephen not feel that he is Irish? I thought it was only Bloom that was going to feel this way, since he is Jewish.

omg stephen is LITERALLY me

i just finished Ulysses, thought it was easily one of the best books ive ever read. so good that i cant figure out what to read next, it seems like nothing is going to compare. i thought of going in the opposite direction and started reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep but it felt like reading a YA book in comparison. Is there anything that can follow Ulysses or am I just gonna have to read it over and over again for the rest of my life

>read entire book dreading the difficulty of penelope
>easiest and most readable section
you guys are retarded

I just finished Ulysses a few weeks ago and have been reading a lot about it. One interesting question I've asked myself was from a letter from Jung where he repeatedly claims the book is filled with "nothingness" and is "infernally nugatory" for the "long-suffering" reader.

I personally had the best reading experience of my life with the book over the course of a semester-long seminar. However, I've been afraid my attachment to it makes me a pseud. Is it possible to have a genuine love of this novel and others that have a reputation for attracting masochists or worse, those looking for academic clout?

Curious to hear your thoughts.

>>20154252
Catcher in the rye helped me out of a bad spot when I was a teenager so that one is up here too but Ulysses both showed me that life is worth living and cemented in my mind that I could become an author when I was seriously doubting myself. No book will probably ever come close to it for me.

What makes ancient literature so important? Why is it a foundation for understanding many great modern novels?