James Joyce

[Anonymous No.1742494]

James Joyce- worth reading or over rated? If the first one, recommendations of some of his more accessible works?

[Anonymous No.1742502]

Start with Dubliners for sure.

Inb4 Finnegans Wake

[Anonymous No.1742508]

God I wish I could rock an eyepatch that awesomely

[Anonymous No.1742510]

OH MY GOD NAKED SNAKE IS AN AUTH-
oh, it's Joyce.
hmph.

[Anonymous No.1742512]

start with his love letters.

[Anonymous No.1742525]

>>1742502
Thanks I'll check it out. Any particular reason for Dubliners over Finnegan's Wake?

[Anonymous No.1742539]

>>1742525

Dubliners is readable.

[Anonymous No.1742542]

>>1742539

He's not just being overly critical, either. This is an excerpt from Finnegan's Wake:

"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend
of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to
Howth Castle and Environs.
Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen-
core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy
isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor
had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse
to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper
all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to
tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a
kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in
vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a
peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory
end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface."

[Anonymous No.1742544]

>>1742525

Finnegans Wake is probably one of the most inaccessible works in the English language.

Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are your best jumping off points for Joyce.

[Anonymous No.1742546]

>>1742512

[Anonymous No.1742549]

>>1742544
>>1742542
>>1742539
Oh, wow. Ill check out Portrait as well