I began Ullyses (spelling?) years ago, got as far as the famous joke of why Ireland has never had a Jewish problem ("they never let them in") and could not finish it bec. I figured you'd need to spend an entirre lifetime (or two) studying its allegories, allusions and symbolism.
2006-12-23 00:59:31 · 7 answers · asked by Bruce G 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Answer to your first question: Yes
Answer to your next question: NO, by all means NO!!!
James Joyce is probably the most Democratic of all writers:
We are all equal as to who understands his texts.
Namely equally ignorant!
Probably any UNDERSTANDING and INTERPRETATION is valid and void at the same time, as long as you don’t claim it is the ultimate version!
2006-12-23 01:01:23 · answer #1 · answered by saehli 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Joyce had glacoma and drank a lot due to the pain. Nobody is articulate in that condition but for some reason English teachers think he is the best thing since Shakespeare.
That is why the publishers that make Cliff notes, and similar booklets, with a brief synopsis of the each chapter and explanations are making a lot of money ;-)
2006-12-23 01:08:56 · answer #2 · answered by Tapestry6 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read "Ulysses" in college. It took a long time, but I loved this book. I read it again. I tried to read "Finnegans Wake", but I had to look up just about every word in a concordance. I gave up. I couldn't understand it at all. But, I love James Joyce - try some of the short stories in "The Dubliners". (BTW, there is no apostrophe in Finnegans Wake; Joyce removed it purposely)
2006-12-23 01:57:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-05 22:36:57 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oy. Erm...Try James Joyce and TS Eliot. One painful semester of British modernism later...I'd still rather bite my toenails than write a comparative paper on Ullyses and The Waste Land.
2006-12-23 03:41:51 · answer #5 · answered by Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Joseph Campbell wrote A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, so presumably he thought he understood it. And if he undersood FW, he must have understood Ulysses as well.
But he's the only one. ;-)
2006-12-23 03:39:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. I started with Ulysses, and fell asleep at page 3 so had no chance to understand anything !
2006-12-23 01:19:42 · answer #7 · answered by jacquesh2001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋