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You may enjoy literature more if you don’t reduce works of art to conveyances of “messages”. Ulysses is far better than that.
by leephillips 4y ago
You may enjoy literature more if you don’t reduce works of art to conveyances of “messages”. Ulysses is far better than that.
- xsmasher 4y agoI enjoy a lot of literature. I've just fallen out of love with Ulysses; The more I understood the more I felt the author was just trying to show off. Clearly it's not worthless or we wouldn't be talking about it a hundred years later. But when you say it's "better," what is your measure of quality?
- leephillips 4y agoSubjective, as everyone’s should be. But adopting the criteria of art for art’s sake, which is the opposite of works with messages or social purposes.