Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!marick From: marick@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: James Joyce - (nf) Message-ID: <2288@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Jun-83 23:06:52 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.2288 Posted: Tue Jun 21 23:06:52 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jun-83 21:10:18 EDT Lines: 20 #R:tekecs:-142200:ccvaxa:22300008:000:741 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".