/lit/ - Literature

>>3670895
Read the entire Western canon before Joyce, then Dubliners, then Portrait, then Ulysses. And then, you won't understand Finnegans Wake in the slightest but read it anyway.

I think it would be good set to music

>>3206529
>GRR Martin
>slapping anyones shit
He looks like he's ready to skewer another steak

>>3193428

>dragons and swords make it good

hurr

I should make a JJ shrine. Too bad I read his stuff from a library.

'Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?~~~~~~~'
~James Joyce (1882-1941)
Irish Novelist and Patriarch, Pope of the Male Hegemony, General 2deep4u Stylah.

Sexually active band geeks

It's well known that J. Joyce preferred music to literature.

Anyone here know why he ended up writing novels?

The question is, relatively speaking, where does pedantry cross the line in focussing on one artist? You can imagine that having read Joyce at a young age, I often am troubled to discuss the simpler details of Joyce among others because I fear being labelled as a Joycean. Joyce himself focussed on many authors, though those who know his biography with more detail know that he focussed specifically on Henrik Ibsen and I've heard rumours that he learned Ibsen's mothertongue for the sake of fully understanding the original texts. However, I find that Joyce, too, knew the intimate biographies of many artists, and not specifically one field of art and literature, but many: Shakespeare, Byron, Aquinas. So if one wishes to indulge moderately in one specific author while themselves aspiring to be pragmatic about it all, how do you go about it? Personally, I keep my Joycean related comments to myself unless they diverge from the Wikipedia information or synopses of reprints, or, especially, if they contribute to new theories of the author's texts or of himself. For instance, there is a woman who wishes 'to expose' an incestuous, abusive Joyce in regards to his disabled daughter (from whom he parted during the war-era) by deconstructing portmanteaux and neologisms of his more modernist works, namely Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. At night, Wake keeps me at peace, however, I don't want to become labelled as a Joycean, but someday, rather, as an author. I could begin by removing my adjectives and adverbs, you say; I could diversify my literary tastes you say; I assure you that I was aware of these issues in myself and have taken proactive effort to overcome what problems arise from them. Are there any closet-Joyceans out there, and if there be, what are your thoughts on this matter? For the rest of the public, what is it that you have to add to my observation?

>>1068789
im also a guitar player

To celebrate our great victory, let's post pictures of our favorite authors.

Obligatory

yo

more like LAMEs Joyce, amirite?