In terms of prose, what should I expect? Is it anything like Absalom, Absalom! where the sentences are 30 clauses strung together by semicolons?
>>9484124
Sample prose from Joyce's Finnegans Wake:
Thefall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-nuk!) of a oncewallstraitoldparrisretaledearly in bed and lateron life down through all christianminstrelsy.
This is what you should expect. He just spews whatever crap comes into his head like a child. It's really immature and has no literary merit.
>>9484149
Come on. I haven't read Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake, but even I know that the style in Finnegan's Wake is waaaayyyyy different from Ulysses
>>9484124
>it's a describe something that I can easily find out for myself episode
Sentences are very different from Absalom. Most of them are just fragments. Nothing very long until a coupla chapters towards the end, but most of the time the long sentences are p straightforward and easier to follow than the clusterfuck that Absalom can occasionally be (except for Oxen of the Sun).
>>9484167
Alright, I plan on reading it soon, because A Portrait and Dubliners were fantastic. As for Absalom, Absalom!, I feel isolated in that while I admit the prose is impressive, I think that it is often bloated. Idk, I like Faulkner, but sometimes it's a bit much.
>>9484174
No I agree w/r/t the bloatings of Absalom: making for a surprisingly difficult drudging of a read.