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I've just started Finnegan's Wake using the Joseph Campbell reader, any thoughts on Campbell's take of it? Or thoughts on it in general? It's blowing my mind.
I've never read any Joyce, bar his love letters. I have my grandfather's copies of Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man on my book shelf. Which should I start with?
I apologise for digressing.
I'm hardly an expert either, but my flatmate (who just finished Ulysses) recommending going Dubliners -> Portrait... -> Ulysses -> Finnegan's...
Because I think characters follow over and stuff.
Plus you getta see the development blah blahfaslb
its too hard for me. i can read a paragraph then i get tired. it requies too much vigilance. mayb when im older
Yeaah do it. Dubliners and Portrait are both amazing. Got about 90 pages into Ullysses before I had to turn to other things for school, but what I recall of it was pretty readable, certainly not just obtuse for the sake of it (like say, Pynchon can be). I doubt I'll ever read Finnegan's Wake but not because I don't think it would be worthwhile but because I don't have the intellectual cojones or focus.
Had a good chuckle at that. One a day would be a good pace, get through it in a few (?) years maybe. Had another look at the first few pages, messed my head up.
can someone recomend me a good guide for Ulysses? I've read Dubliners and Portrait, but there are so many allusions in his work, and I feel like I missed a ton in Portrait. So I want a good guide before I start with Ulysses.