Really engaging, I could not stop reading until the end of the piece. It made me think of a question that I have had for some time and would like to ask: how or why does taste change through time? How does Joyce’s work or any other artist ‘s work go from being rejected to becoming admired? Is there such a thing as being ahead of its time? And if so, how? Sorry if this is a bit basic, I’m not sure how to learn more about these topics. Really appreciate your work, I have been reading the Common Reader and really enjoy it, thank you. Cheers from Chile!
I would suggest that Ireland had to grow into its own identity instead of one handed down to it by the neighbors before it could go about reshaping that identity to focus on the bits it really liked and found useful, in that sense Joyce was definitely ahead of his time.
Very fun to dash through, writing as a huge fan of Ulysses (and jocoserious Joyce in all his work).
It's mistaken to say that Joyce married Nora Barnacle when they left Ireland. They lived (as my mother would've said, "in sin") for decades. It was only long after their children were born. Fromn Nora's wiki page, "the couple were legally married in London in 1931"
This is absolutely brilliant thanks! What is so admirable about Joyce is that he was literally 100 years ahead of the Irish people in his thinking. In Potrait he documents unwarranted abuse by clergy - was that previously documented in Ireland ? His sensibility was European and outward looking where we are today as committed Europeans. He was anti colonialist long before others of his ilk. He was pro democracy anti violence before his time. He was any Catholic 100 years before the Irish people rejected it.
The only thing I tend to think he was wrong about was native Gaelic culture - he rejected it out of hand in favour of classical European culture but there is room for both of course.
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Well done. This may be the closest I get to reading Joyce but has increased the chances I read more
Really engaging, I could not stop reading until the end of the piece. It made me think of a question that I have had for some time and would like to ask: how or why does taste change through time? How does Joyce’s work or any other artist ‘s work go from being rejected to becoming admired? Is there such a thing as being ahead of its time? And if so, how? Sorry if this is a bit basic, I’m not sure how to learn more about these topics. Really appreciate your work, I have been reading the Common Reader and really enjoy it, thank you. Cheers from Chile!
I would suggest that Ireland had to grow into its own identity instead of one handed down to it by the neighbors before it could go about reshaping that identity to focus on the bits it really liked and found useful, in that sense Joyce was definitely ahead of his time.
Lovely piece. I read Ulysses to hear my grandfather's voice, a garrulous opera-loving Dubliner
Very fun to dash through, writing as a huge fan of Ulysses (and jocoserious Joyce in all his work).
It's mistaken to say that Joyce married Nora Barnacle when they left Ireland. They lived (as my mother would've said, "in sin") for decades. It was only long after their children were born. Fromn Nora's wiki page, "the couple were legally married in London in 1931"
This is absolutely brilliant thanks! What is so admirable about Joyce is that he was literally 100 years ahead of the Irish people in his thinking. In Potrait he documents unwarranted abuse by clergy - was that previously documented in Ireland ? His sensibility was European and outward looking where we are today as committed Europeans. He was anti colonialist long before others of his ilk. He was pro democracy anti violence before his time. He was any Catholic 100 years before the Irish people rejected it.
The only thing I tend to think he was wrong about was native Gaelic culture - he rejected it out of hand in favour of classical European culture but there is room for both of course.