Breaking Up with James Joyce

Re:Breaking Up with James Joyce by biswaroop on Monday June 18, 2018 @09:20AM (#17337996)

I highly recommend Dubliners by Joyce. It's the most beautiful collection of short stories ever written. Ulysses has its roots in Dubliners, and if Ulysses is a daydream, then Finnegans Wake is a nightmare. Leave the nightmares to the hobgoblins.

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Re:Breaking Up with James Joyce by 2dollars27cents on Monday June 18, 2018 @11:23AM (#17338893)

I agree. Dubliners is also (compared to Ulysses) very readable. I'm almost afraid to admit how much several of the stories resonated with me...

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Re:Breaking Up with James Joyce by psychometry on Monday June 18, 2018 @12:36PM (#17339574)

I found Dubliners frustrating. They are not so much short stories as vignettes and I was often left scratching my head after each one, confused as to what the point of it all was.

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Re:Breaking Up with James Joyce by artpepper2 on Monday June 18, 2018 @12:47PM (#17339661)

I think "vignettes" is a good way to look at them. They aren't really plot-driven, rather each one builds to a psychological or spiritual moment, what Joyce called "epiphanies"

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