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>changed the face of literary fiction
>only wrote four books
Has anyone else in literature done so much out of so little?

>> No.16322445

>>16322209
Homer wrote only two epic poems that have made it down to us, one of which shares the name of Joyce's magnum opus.

>> No.16322508

>>16322209
Homer, Dante, Cervantes

>> No.16322516

>>16322209
Some guys have written 10+ books that were actually read.

>> No.16322615
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16322615

>>16322445
>He thinks Homer was one person

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>>16322615
Fuck off!

>> No.16322641

>>16322615
Okay, then he just wrote the Iliad which is itself still more influential in the Western canon than anything you could name.

>> No.16322646

>>16322516
I've read three of Joyce's books and if you haven't read any you should fuck off until you do
But just like everybody else, including me, OP forgot about the fifth, Chamber Music

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>>16322641
>he thinks one person wrote the Illiad

>> No.16322663

>>16322646
I was just referring to the fiction but he wrote another book of poems and Exiles (which isn't that good admittedly).

>> No.16322683

>>16322663
What's Exiles?

>> No.16322686

>>16322209
The two most popular Western Armenian poets, Bedros Tourian and Misak Metsarents died at 20 and 22 respectively.

>> No.16322703

>>16322508
/thread

>> No.16322920

>>16322445
>one of which shares the name of Joyce's magnum opus.
Eh, sort of.

>> No.16322921
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>>16322654
>Illiad
>written

>> No.16322952

>>16322209
>changed the face of literary fiction
>by writing gibberish

>> No.16322974

>>16322952
Yes

>> No.16323038

>>16322683
A play. Sub Ibsen.

>> No.16323434

>>16322920
What do you mean sort of? It's a direct translation from Greek to Latin.

Dick.

>> No.16323450

>>16322646
>I've read three of Joyce's books
Read Finnegans Wake NOW.

>> No.16323464

>>16322445
>>16323434
Neither Ἰλιάς nor Ὀδύσσεια translate to "Finnegans Wake".

>> No.16323668

>>16323450
Say that to my face, fucker, not online, see what happens

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16323688

>>16323464
>"Butterbean babadoo bric-a-brac, boiling down babby lane by the shower heads away"
>oi true literature lad

>> No.16324298

>>16322508
>Dante
The undeniably correct answer. Homer is too vague a figure to fit the spot.

>> No.16324339

>>16323688
But Ulysses, of course, is true literature....
>Ah! Gooblasqruk brukarchkrasht!
>O! Weeshwashykissima pooisthnapoohuck!

>> No.16324471

>>16322445
He didn’t write anything. Others wrote down what he spoke

>> No.16324491

>>16322209
Flaubert arguably, Joyce would certainly agree.

>>16322508
Yeah this too, although the existence of a single Homer is dubious.

>> No.16324503

>>16323688
>Butterbean babadoo bric-a-brac
this made the hair on the back of my neck stand up and now i'm dizzy and one side of my face is numb

>> No.16324672

>>16322209

Joyce is all very well but no-one has memorized any of his books, I bet.

There is a writer who has, AFAIK, only one published work to his name, and literally thousands of people have committed it to memory.

It involves a tiger.

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>>16324672

>> No.16325027

>>16322209
Kafka, never even finished a novel

>> No.16326614

>>16324471
And Joyce dictated his work to Beckett.

>> No.16326617

>>16322508
what about vergil

>> No.16326913

>>16322209
Ibn Tufail wrote The Improvement of Human Reason and pretty much triggered the Enlightenment Period.

>> No.16326940

>>16322646
I've read everything by him except Finnegan's Wake, including Chamber Music and The Exiles. I really couldn't get anything interesting out of the latter two.

>> No.16326948

>>16326940
His poetry really isn't that good. Just imitation of Victorian verse

>> No.16327346

>>16326940
Ready to change your mind? You could listen to the Chamber Music sung and The Exiles played. In both cases the melodies, the sound, and the energy work best if performed.

>> No.16327369

>>16323450
while the prom beauties sreeked nith their bearers' skins! — in
a period gown of changeable jade that would robe the wood of
two cardinals' chairs and crush poor Cullen and smother Mac-
Cabe. O blazerskate! Theirs porpor patches! And brahming to
him down the feedchute, with her femtyfyx kinds of fondling
endings, the poother rambling off her nose: Vuggybarney,
Wickerymandy! Hello, ducky, please don't die! Do you know
what she started cheeping after, with a choicey voicey like water-
glucks or Madame Delba to Romeoreszk? You'll never guess.

>> No.16327394

>>16322209
I mean, it hasn't even been a century since Ulysses, you might want to give J some more time to cement himself atop mt. lit. He did do a lot, though.

>> No.16328497

>>16327394
anon's right. we might still find some other love letters.