Ulysses

Hes steady, witty, resourceful, and when he's lost in the world he can manage to pull himself out with grace and good spirit. Stephen doesn't have the tools, he's immature and the only control he has on his temperament is shutting down. Hence why he needs bloom as father figure.

Watch the movie instead, nigga.

OP here, where does it mention that he's a Jew?

Also Buck Mulligan is fancy fucking troll

Mulligan's POV sequel when?

whaaaaat

Pure kino.

Ok theres a lot of stuff but ill try and give a rough overview of what I remember.
>Stephen disagrees with the others in that Aristotle is greater than Plato.
>The others believe in his theory of forms and similarly believe that the genius of Shakespeare is seperate from his life and the art should be interpreted on its own.
>Stephen believes (or says he believes) that you should not consider art as seperate.
>Here you must remember that he is railing against ENGLISH views of art where it is a high culture Shakespeare Milton and the like who the English have forced on the Irish and other colonies as the best of the best.
>But as Stephen is Irish their literature doesn't quite fit for them because it doesn't have the connection to life that the other critics claim isnt important.
>Stephen is stuck between Scylla and Charybdis as he wants to write great works but he needs his own criteria for what a great work is rather than that of the English.
>Then he goes on to theorise about Shakespeare who played the ghostly father of Hamlet and had a son called Hamnet and so theres a load of holy trinity stuff going on.

It mentions it every two sentences. Aren't you paying attention?

Can we all agree that the Circe chapter is the funniest piece of literature every created? It was the only time I audibly laughed at a book before, the situation is just retardedly absurd.

blog.frankdelaney.com/2010/06/episode-1-we-meet-buck-mulligan.html

Joyce's Ulysses - Borges
>I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes.

What a pleb

>I see the genius
There's none, obviously you don't understand it

it's certainly the hottest, gave me a right boner

Big boy alarm going on

the best part of that episode is buck mulligan

Not at all

There is genius flowing throughout the entire book, just not that chapter

This is tenuous...Shakespeare was/is seen as the great 'catholic' (and universal) english writer and Milton the prot.

A lot of critics would agree though - Joyce is a great collater of literature. He's very clever and allusive, genius is the wrong word.

>considerable achievement
Kek

I personally take the view that Hamlet is the poet and Shakespeare the town crier, to me that's the perfect combination.

He actually claimed to have never read an entire novel in his life. He believed that there was no novel that was free of filler, so he saw it as a waste of time and for that reason preferred short works and poetry.

I found it incredibly dark and bleak