By: Ana
“arguably the greatest novelist of the 20th century” He made possible many changes. The “greatest” nobody is but “one of the greatest” he surely is.
View ArticleBy: henry anderson
Nah he was the greatest got cut to the chase with only 2 books and wrote about his love of booty
View ArticleBy: James Voice
James Joyce..possibly the most overrated novelist in history. The “greatness” he is accused of is that he is the first “stream of consciousness” writer; IE he writes EVERYTHING that passes through...
View ArticleBy: NullOp
“The greatest” is a subjective title. Hemingway, Steinbeck, now those guys were writers!
View ArticleBy: James Duval
- NullOp - That they were writers is certainly objective fact, at least. - James Voice - I don’t understand why you think the Iliad is a particularly great work. It was more interesting than most other...
View ArticleBy: Jessica Nettles
I’d like to know where this clip actually comes from because it sounds like it was part of a longer film.
View ArticleBy: Stephen Hero
I love internet debate. The utter pointlessness of quibbling with a phrase like “Arguably the greatest”. The writer is arguing that Joyce is the greatest, ergo he is, literally, *arguably* the...
View ArticleBy: MaX
This Hemingway story is rubbish. It was invented by someone. There’s never a source given for it. But is continues to be repeated. Ignorance is spreads like wildfire.
View ArticleBy: Andrew Turnbull
The narrator describes Joyce thusly because it is almost word for word how Hemingway described him in A Moveable Feast. I don’t have the book handy, but if you have a copy you can read the chapter on...
View ArticleBy: DeForest Light
cf Gajdusek “Hemingway and Joyce: A Study in Debt and Payment.” Hemingway was a defender of Joyce not just in this anecdote but of his aesthetic which Hemingway and very few others understood at the...
View ArticleBy: Gonzalo Soltero
This story from Hemingway and Joyce in Paris comes from the very readable biography on the former by Anthony Burgess.
View ArticleBy: Gin Twice
James Voice’s comments say much more about his own limited intellect and understanding of writing and literature than anything else. I suggest he keep it simple, to start with, and just pick out some...
View ArticleBy: BarerMender
My problem with Joyce was that he gave me a sick, creepy feeling. My response to Joyce is to shove him away with both hands.
View ArticleBy: Tony bulmer
Three things. Joyce was not, by a wide margin the greatest novelist of the 20th Century. As a bookish one eyed stick insect I cannot imagine “our Jim” got into many bar fights. Lastly, Hemingway who...
View ArticleBy: David Caldwell (@daithaic)
James Joyce changed literature for ever and his use of the Iliad is a rather wonderful literary device as his anti-hero Leopold Bloom spends and observes 1 day 16th June 1904 in my hometown of Dublin....
View ArticleBy: Aine Stapleton
He was an alcohol abusive father who treated his daughter like shit..sad but true..
View ArticleBy: Kit Kabootle
You read Araby and like, the first two pages of Ulysses. It’s better practice to develop opinions on stuff you know about. nnLike, everything you just said could only be said by someone who had no idea...
View ArticleBy: Justtosay
You seem to be under the impression that you’re intelligent enough to have a valid opinion about Joyce, so how the hell do you not know that “Ulysses” alludes to the “Odyssey” and not the “Iliad”?
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