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If you really want to start with a Joyce, start really small with The Dubliners. Those are his short stories, and if it’s to your taste, move onward. Wells wou
by runawaybottle 6y ago
If you really want to start with a Joyce, start really small with The Dubliners. Those are his short stories, and if it’s to your taste, move onward.
Wells would say don’t, but fuck Wells ;p
- sateesh 6y agoI would say "Dubliners" is a straight forward read, not lot of allusions and doesn't need lot of context to understand, and is probably the most accessible work of Joyce. I can't fathom "Ulysses". Probably one can try "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by Joyce, and finds it interesting can try "Ulysses".
- mcv 6y agoWells doesn't say don't, he says it's completely alien to him but it might be totally valid from a position completely opposite to his. Well, he also calls it unreadable, but that sounds like a fairly objective assessment, after reading the bits quoted in this discussion.
- leephillips 6y agoWells is talking about Finnegan’s Wake.