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Anonymous07/29/26, 23:06No.25432713
What the fuck is the point of this piece of shit?
Is all of James Joyce's work this pointless? I was told this was his most accessible work but I'd rather pour hot acid into my eyeballs than to read another word of this drivel. Honestly.
Did James Joyce simply forget that reading is supposed to be entertaining? Is his work just a means for him to flex his prose? I can't imagine being that self-important. How is this in /lit/'s top 100? Is /lit/ filled with pretentious idiots or what?
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Anon07/29/26, 23:10No.25432719
>getting filtered by DUBLINERS
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Anon07/29/26, 23:13No.25432724
>What the fuck is the point of this piece of shit?
it's stories about dubliners
>Is all of James Joyce's work this pointless?
dubliners is not pointless, it's sad stories about the lives of dubliners
>I was told this was his most accessible work
it's very accessible
>but I'd rather pour hot acid into my eyeballs than to read another word of this drivel. Honestly.
don't do that!
>Did James Joyce simply forget that reading is supposed to be entertaining?
i don't think so, seeing as he made it entertaining
>Is his work just a means for him to flex his prose?
no, in this case it's a means to tell stories about the lives of dubliners
>I can't imagine being that self-important.
imagination is a quality not amiss in a reader of fiction
>How is this in /lit/'s top 100?
historical prestige of joyce combined with the engaging accessible nature of the stories themselves, i reckon
>Is /lit/ filled with pretentious idiots or what?
it's filled with pretentious idiots, this is true
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Anon07/29/26, 23:14No.25432725
>i don't think so, seeing as he made it entertaining
Haha what? It is the most boring shit I've ever read, and I've read every page of the Old Testament.
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Anon07/29/26, 23:18No.25432732
I had a stroke but at least it wasn’t the third one
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Anon07/29/26, 23:19No.25432733
I started whit The Dead and got insta filtered. I'm sorry but I just don't care about some faggot dandy being self conscious about going to Christmas party.
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Anon07/29/26, 23:46No.25432779
>he's here again
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Anon07/30/26, 18:34No.25434266
>MUH ENTERTAINMENT VALUE
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Anon07/30/26, 18:36No.25434269
Very good bait, at least an 8.5/10
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Anon07/30/26, 18:39No.25434274
>I'd rather pour hot acid into my eyeballs than to read another word of this drivel. Honestly.
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Anon07/30/26, 19:13No.25434346
Dubliners is much like Portrait of the Artist, in that the writing reflects the perspective of the characters it is focused on. Unlike Portrait, however, the prose doesn't change considerably, but there's a progression of themes here which are analogous to aging. You see Dublin as if you grew up there, going from the perspective of a child dealing with first loss, to a teenager (or young adult I don't remember) who doesn't finish her act of rebellion, and ending with a middle aged man coping with the complexity of his love for a wife who still loves her past. If you don't like Dubliners you probably won't like his other stuff, since the short story format actually limits the meandering that makes his writing feel intolerably sloggish. He always reels you back in with outstanding sections of writing though.
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Anon07/30/26, 20:11No.25434467
i've heard it said that the city of dublin is the primary focus of the book, and that the purpose of the stories was just to present the city to us on a level we could see.
idk maybe? i think most of the stories could have happened in any city. the story about the guy whose wife still loved a dead guy was a seriously well devised fucking bummer.
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Anon07/30/26, 20:48No.25434559
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Anon07/30/26, 20:54No.25434575
How does it feel knowing you are precisely the kind of smug whiny retard Joyce makes fun of in his works? Is that why you're getting emotional? Book is hitting too close to home?
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Anon07/30/26, 21:26No.25434645
oh good another high school dropout has an uppity opinion we've all seen a million times
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Anon07/30/26, 21:33No.25434668
Can you elaborate on what you didn't like anon? I didn't find Dubliners that hard to read, or feel like Joyce was "flexing" his prose, and I'm not just saying that to be an ass.Seriously, what didn't you enjoy about it?
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Anon07/30/26, 22:18No.25434758
>more nice spacing
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Anon07/30/26, 22:46No.25434813
>I was told this was his most accessible work
Well you were told wrong.
Joyce's most accessible prose work is Stephen Hero, the first draft of A Portrait of the Artist.
Joyce is one of my favourite writers and A portrait one of my favourite books but I can't say I like Dubliners that much.
Its not hard to read, its interesting but I never get the urge to read it again that much.
One book that people should begin with when they start to read Joyce is Stephen Hero.
It's the first draft of A Portrait.
I don't know why nobody here ever mentions it.
Unlike A Portrait it's written in the style of a 19th century realist novel and it is quite clear and readable.
It follows Stephen Daedalus around Dublin as he goes to college etc.
Despite being incomplete it too became one of my favourite novels and I reread it just as much as A Portrait.
Stephen Hero us a lot simpler than A Portrait and doesn't have as much of that peculiar kind of melancholy that Dubliners has.
So if you want to start with Joyce's major works start with Stephen Hero
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Anon07/31/26, 22:39No.25436633
If you're getting filtered by Dubliners of all things then literature is probably just not for you.
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Anon08/01/26, 15:35No.25437987
It's really telling that you get aggro when someone tells you you're getting filtered. It's everyone else who is wrong, surely.