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A Good Place To Start
| Title | Votes | |
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| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 5 | |
| Dubliners | 4 | |
| Ulysses | 1 |
A Bad Place To Start
| Title | Votes | |
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| Finnegans Wake | 4 | |
| Ulysses | 1 | |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 1 |
James Joyce
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Start with "Ulysses". It's hard but it's the most representative. Dubliners and Portrait are not representative, and if you find them boring, you should absolutely try Ulysses anyway. Then go back to Portrait next, then Dubliners, then FW.
McDruid February 2nd, 2006 05:51 PM PST
Ulysses is a book that many start and few finish.
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Séamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Along with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf, he is a key figure in the development of the modernist novel. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922). His other major works are the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
Although most of his adult life was spent outside the country, Joyce's Irish experiences are essential to his writings and provide all of the settings for his fiction and much of their subject matter. In particular, his rocky early relationship with the Irish Roman Catholic Church is reflected by a similar conflict in his character Stephen Dedalus, who appears in several of his works. His fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin and reflects his family life and the events from his school and college days; Ulysses is set with precision in the real streets and alleyways of the city. As the result of the combination of this attention to one place and his lengthy travels throughout Europe, he became both one of the most cosmopolitan and one of the most local of all the great English language modernists.
Source:Wikipedia
jorn January 29th, 2006 04:46 AM PST