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I am not a huge fan of the Stream-of-Consciousness style (after reading Faulkner) It seems that in the last few months, I have dipped my toes in. I have read a little of Proust and Woolf, and now, even though I swore I would never do it, Joyce. Do I like Stream-of-Consciousness any better? Somewhat, I think I were honest, it's not the writing style I didn't like, but I didn't like Faulkner's characters, not a one. Anyway, I can tolerate the S-o-C style now.
The stories in Dubliners are a little ...more
The stories in Dubliners are a little ...more
In a letter to his brother, James Joyce had listed the order in which he wished his short stories to appear: childhood, adolescence, “mature life” and, finally, “public life in Dublin”. “When you remember” he had said, “that Dublin has been a capital for thousands of years, that it is the second city of the British Empire, that it is nearly three times as big as Venice it seems strange that no artist has given it to the world”.
And so he did, laying bare Dubliners’ state of inertia, the humdrum ...more
And so he did, laying bare Dubliners’ state of inertia, the humdrum ...more
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