What does /lit/ think of Ulysses? Is it really the best book

Read it last year, and I thought it was a fine effort.

It's the greatest novel ever written in English. Yes.

no, Finnegans Wake is.

unequivocally

>>8649747
Pseud.

It blows. Unreadable trash

read it earlier this year, admittedly I'm not super well read but I think it was easily the best book I've ever read
wow I said read a lot in that sentence

>>8649307
>Some average guy from Dublin's mundane life is just as great as the greek myths XDD

it's trash

>>8649307
Is it worth reading this book if you don't have much experience in what it references? What I keep hearing is that one can't enjoy it without understanding what the author is inspired by.

>>8649307
Best book? No. That would be Being and Time, or The Philosophical Investigations. Greatest novel? Probably, in terms of classical formulations of greatness and in terms of influence. It's a delight to read, and masterfully, masterfully written.

I, however, am a tragedy man myself, and crave the daemonic in literature; Ulysses is fundamentally comedic and humanistic. This is why I personally prefer The Sound and the Fury and Blood Meridian. However, I recognize this as idiosyncratic. As far as greatness goes, and it goes stately, the prize goes to Joyce.

>>8652068
>The Philosophical Investigations

Whats so great about it?

>>8652068

t. pseudo

>>8649307
Nah, Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu is the best 20th century novel.

i like the first third.

>>8652175
W's got a pretty radical and, in the history of philosophy, new way of thinking. You study the book, you start thinking like he does, with him. I can say from experience it transforms the way you understand the philosophical enterprise as a whole. He clarifies lots of things, lots of existential and philosophical problems. He thought philosophy ultimately should function as a sort of therapy, clearing the mind of fundamentally flawed ways of thinking. The PI, then, is to philosophical therapy what, I don't know, the greatest self-help book never written is to interpersonal/emotional therapy.

>>8652068
..fuck me I cringed

>>8652302
Keep writing like that and your masterpiece novel will be finished in no time.

>>8652068
>I, however, am a tragedy man myself, and crave the daemonic in literature; Ulysses is fundamentally comedic and humanistic.

>Bloom isn't a tragic figure
>Tragedy cannot be humanistic (Hamlet???)

Back to school with you, pseud.

>>8652046
It's way better than the Greek myths.

Is there a "best edition" of Ulysses to buy?

>>8652068
Pseud

>>8652068
Fuck those guys, pseudy friend, your post is good practice for the real thing.

*farts*

>>8652068
Literally why I come to /lit/, everyone talking shit to my psuedy friend can fuck off

>>8652068
Pseud.

>>8652068
>someone states their thought-out opinion
>"fuck off pseud"
/lit/

>>8649315
no

>>8649747
no

>>8649889
no

>>8651567
no

>>8652046
no

>>8652068
no

middlemarch or anna karenina

>>8653123
whooooopppppsssss not the second one

>>8653123
whoooops or the first one wrong century sorry folks my bad hehe