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!lipp From: lipp@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: James Joyce - (nf) Message-ID: <2289@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Jun-83 23:07:14 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.2289 Posted: Tue Jun 21 23:07:14 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jun-83 21:08:47 EDT Lines: 11 #R:tekecs:-142200:ccvaxa:22300009:000:545 ccvaxa!lipp Jun 20 08:32:00 1983 The "pre-Portrait of an Artist" book is "Stephen Hero". A first draft and (say some) unfinished. Still, it's interesting if you want to get off the beaten track. Also, don't forget the early poems "Chamber Music" --a good intro to the general tone and vocabulary used in the short stories and "Portrait..." The "Wake" has a special place in literature--one look and you'll know why. Everyone I know who's read it (several readers) says it totallly changed the way they view the English language. -- A strong statement for a single book....