How difficult is Under the Volcano? What about Dubliners? I'm

Not difficult but lowry's prose style takes some getting used to. I found it kinda irritating with his gratuitous use of run on sentences but to each their own.

>>8406761
The main thing that's difficult about Dubliners is that it's really focused on the region and time period. Also it's just over 100 years old which makes the language take a bit of parsing out to read.

It's still not that hard if you have an annotated edition (I know penguin's 100th anniversary edition has endnotes).

>>8406761
If you really pay attention to Lowry's sources and allusions, you can just kill yourself, my man. Although, that's true of Joyce, too.

>>8406761

I found Dubliners to be a much easier read in terms of grasping the basic narrative, at least. Under The Volcano is much more 'stream of consciousness' (although they both use this technique) and one of the main narrators is an alcoholic which can make it confusing to figure out what's going on when he is narrating.

>My attention span has been shit lately and it took me like 2 months (most of summer break) to read Lolita.

Hmm. Under the Volcano is almost twice as long as Dubliners, so that might be a factor for you. I read Dubliners in two or three days and Under the Volcano probably took me around a week, for what it's worth.