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For anyone who want get into James Joyce, but finds reading him intimidating, I highly recommend the RTE (Irish national radio) recording of Ulysses: https://ww
by dagw 2y ago
For anyone who want get into James Joyce, but finds reading him intimidating, I highly recommend the RTE (Irish national radio) recording of Ulysses: https://www.rte.ie/radio/podcasts/series/32198-ulysses/ https://www.rte.ie/radio/podcasts/series/32198-ulysses/
Not only do they have a fantastic full cast reading of the book, but for each chapter they have a companion episode where they talk to a Joyce scholar about the chapter. I went through it by alternating listening to a chapter then listing to the episode about the chapter, and I finally really got Joyce and understood why he is considered great.
- matrix87 2y agoPortrait of the Artist is also a good starting point It's way more approachable than Ulysses, the hard parts of it are more self-contained, and if the reader decides to go on to Ulysses they'll have a good understanding of Stephen as a character Really in hindsight I think I liked Portrait more just because you don't have to do as much homework to understand it. It's somewhere in between the general appeal of Dubliners and the masturbatory, literary stuff in Ulysses
- axiomdata316 2y agoThis is an awesome recommendation. I've tried reading him several times but I can never get into it. Definitely going to try this out.
- mark_mc 2y agoThank you so much for this recommendation! I tried an audiobook version once before but felt like I was missing a lot of context. This looks very promising (and is on spotify)!