Mfw this was even easier than Dubliners

>mfw this was even easier than Dubliners

>reading is a competition between the author and the reader

are you dumb lad

That's what Joyce is famous for

Only among plebs

pleb

wew

I hate stream of conscious, the only other book I hate more is Billy's budd.

I actually thought the same thing, mostly because like half of the stories in Dubliners are kind of boring.

The Sisters, Eveline, After the Race, A Little Cloud, The Dead and the pedophile one as well as maybe a few others I'm forgetting were all god-tier though

Isn't that basically all of them

That was intentional on Joyce's part. His original version of it, "Stephen Hero" was going to be a lot longer and more complex but he scrapped and reworked it into the simpler Portrait so that it'd be published. If you want Joyce at his Joyciest, read Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.

its not easy tho, maybe at surface level but what about those philosophical references, at the end of book, or things that had place in ireland

t. pseud

Why did he think anyone cared about his life?

Can I read Finnegans before Ulysses
I have both, but Finnegans attracts me considerably more for some reason

Definitely Ulysses first.

fug
why

It was a comfy and feelsy read
What are some films that are like this book?

You actually can, because it's meant to be readable by anyone in its own convoluted way, but if you do, reading Ulysses afterwards will feel like a downgrade.

Because Ulysses is the day
Finnegans Wake is the night.

I DON'T KNOW, CAN YOU?
sorry

I'd tell you to read Ulysses first, if only to get a feel for his wacky fuckery. After Ulysses, FW will still be interesting, while the inverse might not be true.

Fair enough
Not an argument

bump

Which one had a pedophile?

It gets more difficult as he gets older

I had no idea what was going on when he was talking about Aquinas and that near the end

if you love the sound of language then you should be fine with Finnegans.

Ulysses is a bit more grounded. the words will be a lot more familiar to you than the made up ones in Finnegans

yeah now that I think about it
I was thinking about the one where the guy jerks off in front of the main characters, An Encounter

Yeah that was a nice progression, I want to read the texts he discussed now
That's the way it seems to me. I think for that reason I will probably read Finnegans first, in spite of the sound advice in this thread

>A LIttle Cloud

This is basically Veeky Forums the story

chicken and the egg

>not A Painful Case

>>not A Painful Case
My god that one was depressing.

>not that feeling of frustration, isolation, loneliness and failure at the end of Araby

>not the feeling of overwhelming apprehension, anxiety and paralysis at the end of Eveline

why failure? wasn't it just a kid who wanted to check out a bazaar? I forget what happened already

he wanted to get a gf but tfw no gf

this really made me laugh

thanks, nice dubs

Wanted to get a trinket for the girl he was obsessed with from the bazaar. His dad got home late and he couldn't go until tea was over so when he arrived at the bazaar it was closed and all the shops were shut

>Veeky Forums is a board full of people too scared to go out in the world and experience change, trapping them in their unfulfilling lives

Sounds about right

Also don't forget the older girl who laughs at him at the bazaar, I think it's Joyce hinting at his future failure with/betrayal by women. Pretty much REEEEEEEEEEEE: the short story.

Dubliners does feel a bit >projecting

Not sure what you mean, do you mean Joyce seems to be projecting his own anxieties onto random dubliners? Or are you insinuating that I'M projecting my own insecurities onto the short stories? Because yeah I probably am

I meant Joyce projecting, but to be fair a lot of the stories are very relatable (especially to the type of people who frequent Veeky Forums)

t b h the type of person who browses Veeky Forums is pretty much the type of person Joyce was except minus the genius part

>yfw if Joyce was around today he'd waste his time on Veeky Forums and not get anything (except shitposts) written

I wonder how many Joyces are going to waste because of this site

well there's me, for one

wow, me too!

Another Joyce reporting in.

>I will probably read Finnegans first,

loving every laugh

why

fuckim, bruh. you read FW if you choose. Good luck my cosmonaut friend.

Thanks, friend

You guys should see some of the shitposts I come up with.

t. Joyce

do u realize how difficult it is

I wonder how many people on here can actually say they have """""""""""read"""""""""""" FW

I do, that's what makes me so interested in it

nice trips

Is there anything like the end of this book where there's a mix between philosophic and dramatic dialogue, yet also retaining an internal voice? The only thing I can think is similar is the drama-novel hybrid of Dostoevsky and Plato's dialogues.

The Long Day Closes

An Encounter

If joyce was around today do you think he'd ever wander into the "jewish district" like in portrait or would his awkwardness regulate that he watch internet porn all day?

He'd definitely stay at home watching scat

are dubliners' stories connected to each other? I thought they weren't and read only one and left it there

Don't think so

No. Some characters reappear in Ulysses but that's sort of it.

I think the house of the priest from the first story is used in other stories. They all share ideas but not necessarily plot.

dude feels and missed opportunities lmao

;_;