Proust or Joyce??

>>9791524
You have a few shit books with you already, so take Joyce

Proust, definitely.

Nice bait tho, what do you really expect of something like this from an anglo site? Obviously Joyce (a capital name) is gona have all the recognition in retarded vs liek your shitpost.

>>9791524
There aren't any Parisian overtones in Ulysses. Proust would seem the most ideal here, especially in light of your other books.

Please work on getting to the point in your sentences.

>what reading material would best augment my visit
>but feel i might miss all the PARISIAN OVERTONES
>On the other hand, I feel like since

>>9791524
If you read Ulysses once, you would know that it is about Dublin, and Dublin alone. Hemingway's A Moveable Feast is more relevant to Paris than both Joyce, who wasn't even writing about Paris, and Proust, who came from an earlier Paris.

>>9792379
>There aren't any Parisian overtones in Ulysses.
Except in Proteus when Dedalus literally recounts his stay in Paris you fucking pseud. Leave /lit/ forever.

>>9793353
>Except in Proteus
Are you implying that because Dedalus speaks about Paris in one episode, the book automatically has Parisian overtones? Dedalus is but one character in the book, and it is a large book. I am not saying that Anon is right, but that perhaps your criteria for a book having Parisian overtones should be more than one episode/chapter.

>>9791524
I have the sensation that you are a very annoying and pretentious woman

>>9793353
Pretty brief, and not the sort of overtones you'd get in a book primarily concerned with Paris.

>>9791524
Proust was neurotic and obsessed with his mother. Joyce ditched his square family, country, religion, and culture and became an individual among individuals.

>>9793391
>Dedalus is but one character in the book

god you guys can be difficult to stand,

>>9793883
might be onto something, especially considering how "in the center of things" stein was in paris

>>9793397
why do you comment, did you hate your mother?

>>9791524
and finally, go for proust. You're going to fucking Paris and have already read joyce, what are you doing

Joyce is a better prose writer.

>>9791524
Joyce. Enjoy Paris for Paris. Read Joyce because you and i both know you want to read it a third time, and a fourth, and so on. Proust can wait in the corner. that's what he deserves for being rude to Joyce at that dinner party.

>>9791524
>I'm flying out to Paris for the first time
Paris is lost. You have my condolences, as it's obvious you still maintain a romanticized imagination of "m-muh most romantic city on earf".

Take care of yourself out there.

>>9791524
Soumission.

Rat Man of Paris by Paul West.
a neglected classic.