/lit/ - Literature

>>10977190
>What of his have you read?
Read Dubliners and am currently just about to start the fifth, and final, chapter of Portrait. Gonna start Ulysses ASAP and am saving FW for when I have a fuck-ton more time.
>What’s your favorite Joyce?
Really tough. Dubliners was amazing, especially for the three most depressing stories (A Little Cloud, Counterparts, A Painful Case) and so far the highlights of Portrait have been Stephen's epiphany on the beach at the end of chapter four, and his delve into sin at the end of chapter two. Can't choose between them desu; Dubliners is better on its own, but Portrait is so much more emotional and dare I say relatable to me in particular. However, I expect this will all be moot when I read Ulysses: I've done a fuckton of reading on it beforehand and am almost certain that when I read it it will shoot to the top of my favorites lists. But I guess we'll see.
>Memorable quotes, sentences, scenes, puns, allusions, etc.
The final paragraph of The Dead (of course) and the part of Portrait where Stephen tries to figure out why he finds beauty in words; the prose of that paragraph is so beautiful it's unforgettable, and honestly makes me sad reading it just knowing I can never reach that peak.

Hemingway, I'm already a demon.