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jbrown2140 's review for:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
Stephen Daedalus is obviously one of the less sympathetic protagonists you will encounter... Well, I feel obligated to say that but the fact of the matter is, I so deeply identify with him that I have now read this book around seven times. To all those who "don't like" Stephen, can't you still like a *book* about him? Also, did it ever occur to you that Joyce didn't "like" him either? That that's part of the project here? I'm willing to see my love this book as an almost totally subjective experience - it feels a lot more like listening to a great album - the sort you'd be embarrassed not to use headphones for, bc it's so emotionally intense and even overwhelming that you don't want other people to know you ever feel like that...
All the allusions, textual complexity - those are things you can work through, and they enrich the character of Stephen in a way that standard exposition just can't do.
Yeah, you might have to think (and feel) while you read. That's to me the mark of a good book, not a bad one.
All the allusions, textual complexity - those are things you can work through, and they enrich the character of Stephen in a way that standard exposition just can't do.
Yeah, you might have to think (and feel) while you read. That's to me the mark of a good book, not a bad one.