What should I read before reading Ulysses?

>>8840993
nothing

The Western Canon.

>>8840993
Dubliners and Portrait

>>8840993
this http://badreviewsofgoodbooks.blogspot.com/2011/02/james-joyce-ulysses.html

If this question isn't answered in the sticky/wiki can it be?

>>8840993
Start with the Greeks

>>8840993
The introduction to Ulysses.

Dubliners, Portrait of an Artist, and the Bible.

>>8841005

How is the enriched classic version of dubliners?

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>>8840997

Unironically this.

Ulysses

The Bible

Hamlet

>>8840993
The archived quasi-identical threads.

>>8841461
You sound stupid when you say quasi.

>>8841556
4u

>>8840993
WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERY NEWFAG WHO COMES ON HERE WANT TO READ ULYSSES SO BAD

>>8841674
Because Joyce is one of the 5 authors lit has read.

You will never be completely prepared for Ulysses but the bare minimum is odyssey, hamlet, dubliners and portrait of the artist

>>8842954
agreed

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>>8840993
The Illiad and the Odyssey followed by this >>8841005

Here's the offical list of everything you need to read before Ulysses:
A brief history of Ireland
Dubliners
A portrait of the artist as a young man
James joyce by richard ellmann
Hamlet
The odyssey
The bible
Hero with a thousand faces
Paradise lost
faust
Don quixote
Grimma fairy tales
sound and the fury
The sun also rises
Infinite jest
The 48 laws of power
Hittchhikers guide to the galaxy
House of leaves
Game of thrones
The electric koolaid acid test
Fear and loathing in las vegas
Tao te ching
Bossypants by tina fay
Pulp fiction: the screenplay
1001 dream cars you must drive before you die
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>>8841669

>>8842954
>>8842961
This is such bad advice and sounds like it's coming from someone who has never actually read Ulysses.

In reality this is what would be required to understand the themes and content of Ulysses more than anything. Irish identity is the sine qua non of Ulysses and yet none of you jolly idiots mention anything about cracking history books.

>several good books on Irish history
>several good books on Irish politics

These would be highly recommended for even deeper understanding and not being led astray by the bombardment of subtle allusions, etc.

>books on Roman Catholicism, the catechism, Yeats, Wilde, Shakespeare, Portrait of the Artist.

Offers some interesting but ultimately pretty superficial parallels.
>The Odyssey

"Hurr the Odyssey is essential."

T. Someone who never read the damn book seriously

>>8844836
Recommend history books, batman