/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19293642]

these look like shit. guaranteed designed by w*man or nu-male. what the fuck, bookchads. i just want handsome editions of joyce.

[Anonymous No.19293805]

>>19293642
I didn't finish Ulysses but I don't recall any amazing significance to the word yes, is it just meant to symbolise the stream of conscious?

[Anonymous No.19293821]

>>19293805
the last part

[Anonymous No.19293828]

>>19293805
last word nigger

[Anonymous No.19293831]

>>19293805
Molly's Monologue.

[Anonymous No.19293832]

>>19293642
>Portrait of AS A The Artist YOUNG James MAN Joyce

[Anonymous No.19293938]

>>19293805
Literally the incredibly famous last page, way to out yourself as a pseud

[Anonymous No.19293943]

>>19293642

These don't annoy me that much but Ulysses should be blue and Dubliners should be green

[Anonymous No.19294002]

ERS YES AS A YOUNG MAN

AGONY, ANUSES SMEARY

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>>19294004
reposting spiritually

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>>19294004
Reposting metaphysically

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>>19293642
I like these

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>>19294004
Reposting cybernetically

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>>19293642
The Ulysses one is good

[Anonymous No.19295697]

>>19293642
No edition will ever be nicer than the 1946 Random House one, pic rel.

[Anonymous No.19295729]

Can you dig it?

[Anonymous No.19295742]

>>19294004
the act of replying creates a link to this post, causing me to post it in a way

[Anonymous No.19295751]

>>19295697
Classy

[Anonymous No.19296413]

>>19294004
I will describe the image in detail to a close friend on the phone, sonically reposting

[Anonymous No.19296433]

>>19294004
might as well repost it

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[Anonymous No.19296609]

>>19294004
Reposting in power

[Anonymous No.19297513]

>>19294004
Reposting in the next life

[Anonymous No.19297532]

>>19293642
>bugman are ruining books written by another bugman

Many such cases.

[Anonymous No.19297540]

>>19293642

Literally so many editions of Ulysses in fantastic binding. The Bodley Head editions, all the FS editions, the Easton facsimiles. Many choices. If you want to spend some money google “Thornwillow Ulysses” that is being published next year.

[Anonymous No.19297559]

>>19294004
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[Anonymous No.19297572]

>>19294004
Better safe than sorry

[Anonymous No.19297580]

>>19293642
you can't judge a book by its cover

[Anonymous No.19297629]

>>19297559
fvvck

[Anonymous No.19298412]

>>19295697
Shiggy diggy. OC is best though.

[Anonymous No.19298424]

>>19293642
paperbacks ruined literature forever. now its going to be all digital. do you think the next great epic poem will be a pdf?

[Anonymous No.19298526]

>>19293642
buy an older edition, faggot
also, quit blaming the fucking designers and start blaming the employers who keep ordering them to do anything that's trendy.

[Anonymous No.19298582]

>>19293642
now what does their Finnegans Wake look like?

[translation No.19298586]

>>19298424
No because I use txt files

[Anonymous No.19298713]

>>19298424
cheap penguin paperbacks probably bought literature another 100 years
>do you think the next great epic poem will be a pdf?
i don't see why not

[500 No.19298724]

And I thought my copy had an ugly modern cover.

[Anonymous No.19298737]

Vintage Chadssics

[Anonymous No.19298742]

>>19293642
What the fuck happened to the other covers?

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Ulss

[Anonymous No.19299056]

>>19298810
Ulss.

[Anonymous No.19299278]

>>19293642
I kinda like simple solid color covers, just wish it didnt have the black sharpie letters.
>>19298737
This one's really nice.

[Anonymous No.19300883]

Not letting the thread die before we get some real and substantial discussion on this godforsaken imageboard.
I would love to hear the opinion of someone more educated than me on the dichotomy between Joyce's mockery of the Celtic revival and Irish nationalism, and his apparent obsession with Ireland itself.

[Anonymous No.19300893]

>>19293642
I like them

[Anonymous No.19301169]

>>19297540
Oh noice didn't know Thornwillow officially announced this yet thanks anon

[Anonymous No.19301261]

>>19300883
>I would love to hear the opinion of someone more educated than me on the dichotomy between Joyce's mockery of the Celtic revival and Irish nationalism, and his apparent obsession with Ireland itself.
I'm no expert but I think it has to do with what he seems to identify as the true essence of the Irish "spirit", encapsulated in the novel by Bloom. Like the Jews, the Irish are best characterized by their resilience and forgiveness –the most important of Bloom's characteristics–, not by the phony aggressiveness and crony heroism spoused by someone like the Citizen. In this sense the novel is also a criticism of the Odyssey's heroism, to which Bloom's mildness is opposed as the true figure of the modern hero.
The introduction to my edition also tackled this issue and I think what it said was true. The opposition Irish-English that Irish nationalism touted was also a creation of English colonialism, and affirming that dichotomy was still playing by the rules the British had set. A more transgressive, liberating and radical approach, then, would have been to surpass that opposition and create an Irish identity anew, one that wasn't just an inversion of the image Anglos had made of it in the past.
But I don't know man, read the introduction Declan Kiberd wrote for the book, it's really good.

[Anonymous No.19301267]

>>19293642
>w*man
You should be banned from this board for writing such stupid words like this with asteriski.

[Anonymous No.19301284]

i bought this copy probably 6 or 7 years ago and have been reading it recently. Sometimes i stare at the cover and I'm just sort of baffled. What is it?

[Anonymous No.19301303]

>>19297540
>Those fucking prices
Jesus christ

[Anonymous No.19301315]

>>19301284
time crystals

[Anonymous No.19301353]

>>19301315
what the fuck are time crystals. It should have been tabs of Death sitting on Donna's huge fucking tits

[Anonymous No.19301421]

>>19295697
Yeah

[Anonymous No.19302046]

>>19301261
My edition of the book (vintage books, same as OP) doesn't have an introduction. Peculiar, since if any book ever needed one, it would be Ulysses. I have downloaded Declan Kiberd's introduction from l*bgen and will be reading it shortly.
I have to say your case seems plausible. However, I have trouble seeing how Yeats represents "crony heroism". Of course those elements exist within any nationalist movement, but Yeats is mostly considered as a pacifist, and with poems like Lake Isle of Innisfree and The Fisherman, it doesn't seem like his Irish ideal was much different from Joyce's own. Maybe he is in Joyce's sights because he is the de facto figurehead of the broader movement, or maybe I just have a poor grasp of the material.
Joyce's Ireland could perhaps be considered a tad more shy and pathetic than Yeats'. I am specifically thinking about After the Race and A Little Cloud, as well as a few other short stories in Dubliners. Honestly I get the feeling that Joyce, love him to death, might be projecting a fair bit with his idea of the Irish spirit. Now that I think about it, it makes a lot of sense.

[Anonymous No.19302124]

>>19293805
Derrida wrote an entire fucking essay on it you slack jawed yokel

[Anonymous No.19302168]

I thought this 1949 edition from Mexico was pretty neat. Thought you fellas might like it.

[Anonymous No.19302564]

>>19302168
Thanks senpai, that's pretty based.

[Anonymous No.19302567]

>>19301261
>>19302046
Upon reading the first part of Kiberd's introduction, it seemed to me that Joyce's biggest problem with the moderate wing of the Irish nationalist movement, was the "odious pretentiousness" of the revival. I was a bit dissatisfied with the reason being a general disdain for LARPers, so I jumped on the allusion as soon as it was made;
>Moreover, the autocritical structure may be seen as congruent with the book's anti-authoritarian politics. The critic Frank Kermode has contended that it is the self-criticism and self-deflation of modern art which saves much of it from the excesses of romanticism and fascism.
So, Joyce opined that even the most moderate and pacifist romanticism was a step towards totalitarianism, and thus employed the self-criticism and self-deflation, which he thought 'other' Irish revivalists lacked, in his own writings. Would that be the core of the issue?

[Anonymous No.19303168]

>>19293642
They look like bath bombs kek

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[Anonymous No.19304271]

>>19302168
¿Qué editorial es?

[Anonymous No.19305090]

>>19304271
(Mexico D.F; Editorial Diana, 1949)

So what I read

[Anonymous No.19305099]

>>19293642
>i just want handsome editions of joyce.
2nd hand