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Subject: Re: James Joyce - (nf)
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ccvaxa!marick    Jun 19 15:36:00 1983

	Joyce in order of readability (also in the order they were written):

	Dubliners (short stories)
	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
	Ulysses
	Finnegan's Wake

	Only the last two are "revolutionary".  "Portrait" is extremely
condensed; it helps if you know some Irish history and a bit about Irish
Jesuit schools.  Someone somewhen published an earlier version of "Portrait".
It is about twice as long as "Portrait" and explains much that is only
alluded to in that book.  I found it very helpful, a less accomplished but
more likable book than "Portrait".  I can't recall the title.

	James Blish, who was a Joyce scholar, called 
"Barefoot in the Head", a science fiction novel by Brian Aldiss,
good preparation for "Finnegan's Wake".