Until I reached the fifth and final chapter, the rating on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was a pretty weak three-stars. And those were mostly for the deserving prose, and not for the underlying story. Boy did that last chapter pack a whollop! As with Dubliners, Joyce's emotional acuity and...
I've been required to read this at least twice in different classes. It just seemed self-important without really being especially self-revealing. It's highly possible that Catholic convention or publishing restrictions in Ireland were holding back what he'd felt or what he'd lived, but neither his ...
Oh dear. What to say…I enjoyed and partially hated this book. If I had just been reading it, straightforward and simple (with the help of Sparknotes, of course, because it’s nearly impossible to understand what’s going on), I would have liked it. A solid four stars for sure. And while that’s what I ...
There are writers I've never got around to reading. There are others I've spent decades avoiding. Joyce is in the second category. I picked up [b:Ulysses|338798|Ulysses|James Joyce|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1346161221s/338798.jpg|2368224] once or twice when I was in my twenties, read a few lines ...
I wish whoever added the volumes in the Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism editions wouldn't add them to editions that only have the texts of the works of literature that they deal with!
Es mi primer Joyce. No sabía que esperar con tanto ruido alrededor de sus obras.Resultó estar al nivel de su fama. Una buena historia con excelentes descripciones y detalles inesperados. Un estilo extraño pero mas admirable que chocante.Supongo que requerirá una releida o dos o tres.
Catholic guilt. That's a term thrown around in my family a lot, and it's something that I identify with. If you don't have an Irish Catholic background, I can understand how you may become bored with the religious sermons and the shameful, guilt-ridden nature of Stephen's musings.This book revolves ...
I wanted to like this book and was excited about reading it; I was attracted by the lack of a traditional narrative and the book's reputation and Joyce's reputation. I enjoyed the early descriptions of Stephen's family, the descriptions of his school days especially when he had a fever, the question...
Ok...I admit it...I needed to Google this book to undertsand what the main ideas were.It's not that it's badly written - on the contrary. Stream of thought is actually quite an understandable style, once you get the hang of it. It's more of my inability to keep my brain focused that stopped me from ...
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