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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
And bashing Joyce is usually little more than anti-intellectual clap-trap.
You tried, and an English professor you know tried. Case closed. Clearly nothing left to see here.  |
I'm not anti-intellectual. There are loads of far better Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, South African, Australian and American authors of the Twentieth Century. Also the Professor was a top Canadian Professor of English Literature. An English professor is a professor from England.
I can give plenty more examples. It's not an outlier opinion unless you are even more of a Literary Snob than my dad was. He finished them all but admitted in his latter years that they were poor. The Guardian is famously snobby about books and sell literary books direct.
I've read lots of stuff people call Literature.
I have ALL Joyce's books on paper to save people wasting their money and time. They can borrow my copies. If you borrow a book you may feel under less obligation to finish it than if you bought it?
Neither of which are attributes that preclude an author from writing novels people respect and praise. It just makes him someone that some might not want to hang out with.[/QUOTE] It mostly does.
No, it also made him totally unproductive. He didn't write much. What he did was at a shocking slow pace. He himself boasted of it. His "exile" was entirely self imposed.