Why did James Joyce choose to write Ulysses and his other

>>9735800
I know I wish he wrote them in another language so I didn't have to read them. joyce is terrible

>>9735800
He wrote it in Irish, retard.

Back to /pol/ you go
>>>/pol/

>>9735814
This is just a silly thread

>>9735800
Because it's his first language dimmit.
>>9735814
Lel

>>9735808
>>9735814
>>9735822
I mean, Joyce was proficient in Irish, German, Italian, French, Greek, Hebrew, Finnish, Norwegian, Old English, Polish, and probably even more. Yet he chose to specifically write his magnum opus in English.

>>9735826
>Writing in the English language is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives.

What did he mean by this then?

>>9735840
>Why english?
It was his mother tongue.

>Why not irish gaelic?
It was not, and he did not achieve proficiency in the language at the time of writing; you can read more here (http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5s200743&chunk.id=d0e11455&toc.depth=100&brand=ucpress)

>>9735800
Universal language so more people can read it.
Was his mother tongue.

>>9735800

> Finnegans Wake
> English

>>9735840
really wrong about this, he had mediocre knowledge of irish, greek, hebrew, finnish, norwegin, OE and polish.

He didn't write them in English though, he wrote them in Music.

>>9736360
you were music to my ears
by I was deaf

>The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

>If I gave it all up immediately, I'd lose my immortality. I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

>I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

>(his last words) Does nobody understand?

genius.

>>9735800
So he could sell it to more people :)

>>9735840
Yeah, he should have just wrote it in Finnish.