joyce

People that call Joyce unreadable are people who never learned to hear an author's voice in their head.

Yes - took 2 Joyce seminars back in college and never got through more than excerpts of FW.

James Joyce is an author few people can read without some help from someone who already understands the work.

There are many (multi-lingual) puns in the text and in this book Joyce elevated punning to a high art.

It's so easy to fall into this hubris with Joyce precisely because he's so great; but it's a trap nevertheless.

And yes, Joyce can also do what they can't, and you speak eloquently of that.

In one 25-day span this year, Joyce flew round trip to London 16 times, flights that would retail for more than $125,000.

You've put Joyce on the pedestal of the impossibly perfect and feel content with throwing the rest of literature to its feet.

You're overshooting your target a bit when you rant about Joyce being utterly readable.

I'm saying that the people that think Joyce is pretentious are the people who haven't figured out he's hilarious.

But Joyce is utterly readable, if you know how to read him.

I do think Joyce is incomparable, but it's not because he's somehow the Best Writer.

I end that section with "These were my altars", then transition to a second Joyce quote to discuss what kinds of strain such an intended worship places on a person.

There is in Kafka the ability to give voice to despair and desire that is unmatched by anything in Joyce.

It's that Hemingway developed one limited style and used that to tell the stories he cared about, whereas Joyce's style was constantly expanding.

James Joyce, an author that pretty much no one can read Nonsense.