Tag: Irish literature
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Murphy
Review: The first published novel from the author who would later become known for Waiting for Godot. Rejected by 42 publishers it was finally published by Routledge in 1938. As much as I enjoyed this, I can see why it was rejected by so many publishers. Why? Because this is a peculiar book, just shy… Read more
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Dubliners
Review: This was fucking magnificent. Joyce brings to life fin de siècle Dublin like to LIFE. God I felt I was there. Is it modernist? Not in the same sense as Portrait of the Artist and certainly not as in Ulysses, but it deviates sharply from the rigid narrative structure that we are familiar with… Read more
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Review: Brilliant in every sense. This book sparkled from cover to cover. If I had read this first I would have been a little less confused when reading Ulysses. Which I will read again at some point. Ireland, politics, religion, alcohol, and the glorious countryside. Youth, education, and the ways of young men. A boy… Read more