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Originally posted by clifclav
I have a feeling that fifty years from now the whole academy will take their collective heads out of their collective behinds and say, "You know what we just shitting all of you. Writers like Proust, Joyce and Pynchon were all really just a crock trying to make you feel insignificant and stupid."
Of course that is just my opinion. I could be wrong.
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Well, I agree that reading Ulysses in 5th grade seems a bit odd, but I can't agree with your feeling that Joyce et al were shit.
Ulysses introduced the "stream of consciousness" concept in writing which is very evident in the above passage. This alone was groundbreaking at the time.
You don't think with commas, full-stops and in nice orderly grammatical constructs now, do you? If you do, you are very very strange... :-)
Yes, Ulysses is difficult to read. Famously. But it's undoubtedly a very rewarding one if you "get into" it, and it's a very important book (probably the most important book) in 20th century literature.
Mr Mephisto