Should I read Ulysses before this?

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Anonymous Fri Dec 26 14:08:22 2014 No.5910248 [Reply] [Original]

Should I read Ulysses before this?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 26 14:31:06 2014 No.5910289 >>5910248 post of the year

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 26 14:34:40 2014 No.5910300 >>5910248 finnegans wake, then this, then portrait of the artist as a young man, then ulysses the moocow is a friend of the cat

Anonymous Fri Dec 26 14:46:10 2014 No.5910320

>>5910248
joyce was such a genius
he has his pre-post-post-modern metafictional masterpiece, 'the cat and the devil' (note subtle allusion to the master and margarita, and in addition his own sexual habits: the 'devil' is a joycean figure and seems to evoke the metaphysical eschatological relationship of joyce's struggle with catholicism and scepticism; moreover the clouds (subtle reference to Aristophanes, an example of typical joycean intertextuality) behind the satanic figure (allusion to paradise lost and genesis) seem to allude to the quite literal clouds of farts produced by nora barnacle) published under his own name posthumously, as a kind of semi-anonymous (note the striking resemblance between the seated figure and the devil; the stephen dedalus character in the boat gazes into the narcissus-like reflection of himself in the pool, while the epoch of joycean thought gazes down on him) nod to barthes' musings on the (quite literal in this case) death of the author, both acknowledging that 'joyce' the figure is dead (as he can no longer publish) and the physical, corporeal james joyce is dead. the anachronistic cover illustrations of the dark ages peasant with a fishing rod seems to even play on the anachronistic nature of posthumous publishing -- how would a modern audience receive a joycean text published after his death? indeed, joyce manages to blur the line between genre and audience, and his last literary hurrah, the successor to the complexity of finnegans wake has come riverrun itself, turning full circle and showing the cyclical nature of literary complexity, transcending adult human understanding and consequently being deemed merely a 'childrens' book' by scholars.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 26 14:47:47 2014 No.5910328 >>5910300 moo moo muthafucka

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 26 14:57:45 2014 No.5910350 >>5910289 yup

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 26 15:14:55 2014 No.5910418 File: 179 KB, 500x358, 1410672685633.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5910248 good thread op

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 00:22:44 2014 No.5912037 >inb4 Muh moo cow

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