Read Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before Ulysses.
If you gave up on it before: try again. I used to think it was BS for years but I tried again and ended up loving it.
I’d advise skipping student editions or getting hung up on reading tons of notes and criticism while reading it. Just use google translate for latin and know a little bit about Homer and Shakespeare. It’s about mainly about life, death, and reincarnation.
Ulysses is like a slot machine in that it rarely pays out on the first pull. And if anyone loved a good pull it was Joyce.
It’s great.
Read Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before Ulysses.
If you gave up on it before: try again. I used to think it was BS for years but I tried again and ended up loving it.
I’d advise skipping student editions or getting hung up on reading tons of notes and criticism while reading it. Just use google translate for latin and know a little bit about Homer and Shakespeare. It’s about mainly about life, death, and reincarnation.
Ulysses is like a slot machine in that it rarely pays out on the first pull. And if anyone loved a good pull it was Joyce.