JOYCE GIFT SUGGESTIONS

>>8883308
A therapist

>>8883308
A life

my diary desu

>>8883308
The annotations to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake...seriously the amount of work he put into those books is astounding. The annotations maybe overkill but they really help clarify some of the more obscure shit for me

>>8883334

Which one would you suggest?

>>8883337
I want to read Joyce. Do you recommend that I buy the annotated versions of his books or just read him without any annotations?

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Richard Ellmann's biography

>>8883341
Just do a read through without the annotations first just for the sheer musicality of his prose. Even if you don't understand it all it's still just fun to read no matter it's reputation as being difficult. Don't get the annotated version just get the Gifford annotations that go along with the book line by line. It sounds tedious to flip between the Gifford annotations and then going back to Joyce I know but you don't have to read every single annotation...just think of it more as an encyclopedia to help clarify some of his inside jokes and references that would probably seem obscure to someone who isn't caught up on Greek mythology or Irish slang or Joyce's personal life. For example there's a section where Leopold Bloom takes a shit and wipes his ass with an old literary magazine...funny enough on its own but I read the annotations for that line and found out that Joyce as a teenager used to write for that magazine and that made me chuckle even more. Just adds more depth to an already immensely impressive work