Some English sovereign said that about Calais but she used the word "found" which is actually more correct. I never bothered with Joyce but have fun with his silly quotes. He is famous for being hard to understand like my Chinese neighbor whom nobody ever heard of.
Upon starting to read a portrait of the artist as a young man. I quickly went from "what the hell" to "this is the most exquisite narrative of thought I've ever seen" truly marvellous!
Joyce's style is more relevant today than ever considering the choppy, abbreviated and polluted thoughts we all experience in such an over-stimulating and informational existence
It gets worse... what if you do *get it*? Then you're totally insufferable. It happened to me... had to move on to the harder stuff... Finnegans Wake... But fortunately once you *get* that one, you're basically a God, ask Joseph Campbell
And here comes the voice that can calm my nerves. Just what I needed today. Thanks for today's lesson School of life.Best regards from your humble student :)
Aaru C here's something that probably won't sound sensible. there is no you to calm your nerves, there are no nerves alone, and there are no catalysts.
"I choose to press into my arms, the loveliness which has not yet come into the world." This quote, more than any other by Joyce, deeply resonates with me as a creative person. Always look ahead, break barriers and find beauty and meaning in places where other people are not looking.
My favourite story about James Joyce: When Joyce and drinking buddy Ernest Hemingway faced a potential brawl, Joyce would hide behind his more imposing comrade and shout “Deal with him, Hemingway, deal with him!!!’
@@stepatatime5388 Sylvia Beach related the story in her memoirs "Shakespeare and Company." I don't know where she learned this, but I also don't know why she would make this up.
I managed to read Ulysses over this previous summer. Until now, I found it impossible to properly describe my experience with the book, still yet this is partially true, yet this video does a fantastic job of condensing Joyce and his glamour. Of explaining what his books are, what they explore. Thank you for this clear and insightful video on Joyce, and helping his readers and nonreaders alike understand his baffling yet fascinating work.
Superb video. Thank you. I read Ullesses in college. What puzzled me was here was an ordinary man, doing ordinary things, yet I was not bored by the novel. Joyce magic.
"Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, further westwards, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling too upon every part of the lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." I love this man!
It's funny to me how Joyce is often considered advanced, confusing, boring, etc. I remember having to read some of his poetry in high school, and thinking it was fantastic. Why weren't we studying this guy more? And just as quickly, the curriculum never mentioned him again.
James Joyce's schizophrenia hadn't manifested in high school. His earlier writings are much better. If you read his writing in the order it was written- dubliners, a portait of an artist, ulysses, and the wake then you'll see that his career was nothing but a chronical of his descent into madness. There was nothing appealing or admirable about it, the scumbag elites just want us to believe that insanity is better than genius.
Hunter S Thompson deserves a video. His writing style created a new style of journalism and his books marked his quest for the "American Dream" as well as his dedication to mocking the corruption he saw all around. He is also one of the more misunderstood writers and I think the time is right to show everyone what went on in that bizarre mind of his.
I read A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN in my freshman year in college. It was a great experience - the right book at the right time. Thank you Martin Glass for being my guide.
Wrong. You should have read the first pages when you were a toddler. Then the first chapter when you were 10. And follow the next chapters once you grew up, until the last ones when you started college ;-)
John Lennon read Joyce's works and subscribed to The James Joyce Quarterly journal. He loved Joyce's use of language and the humor in the word mash-ups and puns, such as in "Finnegan's Wake".
The source was a literary article published by Richard Gerber which talked about the influence of James Joyce and Lewis Carroll on John's writing. The article is titled "Goo Goo Goo Joob!: The John Lennon/James Joyce Connection Through Lewis Carroll’s 'Looking-Glass'". Here's the link: fisherpub.sjfc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=nepca
Well presented. Burgess’s ‘A shorter Finnegans Wake’ is full of elucidating commentary. One thing at variance with your interpretation of FW found there: there is a story to FW and it can be told in three sentences though it is hardly what the book is about since to do so needs ‘wideawake’ language and FW is a nocturne expressing the meld of images and languages for those melded images in sleep. The Ballad of Finnegan is simply used for its combination of the ordinary man in the ordinary situation with ordinary habits with the principle of christian resurrection (Fin=End in french; Egan=Again as in the other song Finnegan-Beginnagain.) The ‘wide awake’ story is - a Dublin publican and his wife go to bed where they will make love for the very last time in their married life; a child wakes them up asking for a drink of water; they go back to sleep! (If I remember accurately).
Ron Maimon I report Burgess’s analysis concerning the ‘wide-awake’ story - I could have added that a little branch outside the bedroom keeps tapping the window pane: tp.........tp...........inside the dream story things are akin to what you say with the twins and the little sister....... There is great poetry in the idea of the last carnal embrace of a couple sinking then into the tiredness of the spent energies of the world and the burgeoning world of metaphysic..........there is no spoiler since the exterior situation forms no part of the interior drama - it simply secures the relation between dream and reality, waking and sleep. The book is a Nocturne and Joyce wished to put as much into this different ‘element’ as Shakespeare put into the waking moments of his plays. Another thing that Burgess points out is that in order to account for the range of erudite reference of the Dublin couple Joyce arranges his own - the author’s - dream to encompass theirs. It is worth getting the book ‘A shorter Finnegans Wake’ to see all his other perceptions on the work. If you have issue - take it up with him (later.......) Cheers.
I took a guided tour of Dublin courtesy James Joyce memorial with the guide taking us on the route taken by Bloom in Chapter 8 Lestrygonisns of Ulysses. The journey from O’Connell St through the heart of city centre of Dublin Bloom takes is at lunch time and involves his own lunch. This Chapter is supposed to represent the digestive system of human anatomy and when the route was lined out on a city map, it drew the digestive canal from mouth to colon stretching from the news paper office on and ending at the National Museum opposite Trinity College. Simply astounding! The attempt here to introduce such a complex genius is extraordinarily amazing. 👏👏👏👏
If you have read Ulysses then I'm impressed. That has got to be the most difficult book in the English language. Except for Finnegan's Wake, of course.
Ulysses is probably easier than Gravity's Rainbow to read if you were living in Dublin when it was published, but now you NEED a guide to understand Ulysses whereas GR is just monstrously difficult.
It's a wonderful book and really fun. Although tedious to read because one might need the aid of annotations and a couple of books but it is really impressive. How joyce plays with the structure of languages and his book is so unique. the key is to not really take it serious.
I love james joyce work.I have read all his books and find there are easy to follow,Why say that James joyce story are so deep,so if you are deep person read his books will come easy for you.Well working on book that is very deep story lines.I think as human we need that to continue on reading.
I have been thinking about these type of things lately, the stream of consciousness - How rapid and impulsive our though shuffle through our minds the inner world of all our routine thought patters and emotions and visions, its fascinating. Its good perspective to zoom in on.
is there any way I can donate for the creators of this channel? I already have some of your books. but I do love, adore, and resoect your work and what we you are doing. thank you so much. I learn a lot better than majoring in English and Philosophy in college.
frankly, the view is profound. At the last, we will find that every literature masterpiece concludes a kind of unique art philosophy. Do you guys think so?
Fantastic! School of life has been getting better and better since I discovered it over a year ago. It's really wonderful that you share all of this. Think of all the interests you peeked, its things like this that make me love the internet.
I'm loving these videos. I was wondering if you have any plans of analyzing filmmakers? It would be awesome to see School of Life videos for guys like Bergman, Herzog, Tarkovsky, etc.
This video makes me thankful for James Joyce because I love Japanese slice of life shows. Nobody does slice of life better than the Japanese. I'm not talking about anime even though those are good also when I mean Japanese dramas. They take ordinary people doing ordinary jobs and they make it interesting and beautiful honestly watching slice of life Japanese shows can be heartwarming and relaxing and they just give you a sense of peace.
You guys are proably drowning in suggestions but a video about Oscar Wilde would be awesome! With all due respect (really, I love and respect what you do), I'm surprised you don't already have one about him. Peace and Love, School of Life!
The problem with Joyce is that of exhaustion due to the difficulty of grasping the meanings of his creations and his disconnections with meaningless language disconnected with his creation of whatever manifests from his brain and sensations....who wants... to figure... it all...out?
Duart Maclean Enthusiasts! After you have successfully understood what he wrote, it's like solving a difficult puzzle and you feel accomplished. That's the joy enthusiasts get when someone asks them why they need to make efforts to do that
I am a writer. My first novel is a stream, written as a framed narrative, using magic realism. It too delves into the human mind and fleshes out some interesting ideas through plot. It won't sell a copy. Well, maybe one that I'll have to pay for in the end. In 1968 I wrote a stream in college for a required paper. The professor loved it. He exclaimed how great it was as I titled it a Stream on Conciseness. There was just one problem. I misspelled Consciousness. Hahahah, yes funny but true. Yes, foolishly I admitted the error. Anyway, I am a fan of JJ. I read Portrait at the insistence of my very well educated scholar professor brother-in law. He read some of the early pages of this effort. He knew my mind and figured he'd provide the introduction to JJ. I still thank him. I loved portrait because of the skill of JJ, not necessarily the subject matter. He stitches words together as fine as an Italian cobbler makes luxurious shoes. Maybe better. Now, to the point of this dribble; Thank you for this videos education. I finally sucked it up and decided to take on Ulysses. I didn't want to make the same mistake as i had when I read the Sound and the Fury by Faulkner. That is walk into the trap. So, I've been reading others ideas. Yours has to be one of the best presentations. Again Many Thanks Az
i absolutely love your channel. it helps with living. one question though: where are non Western writers? I've been waiting on Achebe for a while now. hopefully it's in the works. thanks
MrZanctum James Joyce is a realist modernist writer. His writings reflect the evolution of Dublin. If you read his collection of short stories Dubliners, you'll recognise that. A lot of readers accuse him and his stories that they don't contain a plot or a climax as if the events are like everyday life nothing nevel to add, but his short stories are full of epiphanies; sudden realisations. The plot of the story is circled around the conflicts of the mindset. How the effect of breaking routine is bringing to the human psyche its full consciousness when the implications of that deviation are unexpected. This emphasises the theme of paralysis and change. You look for these things in James Joyce's works and you will begin to immerse yourself in the narrative. Besides, James himself confirms that plot doesn't matter to be included in fiction which is confusing to some readers including me tbh. I read a couple of stories from his collection Dubliners and there were nothing spectacular. The work is restricted to target a certain readership in a particular period of time; it's not meant to be as Shakespeare's or other literary agents whose works imply a universal appeal as in canonical or classical works such as Les Miserables, Etc. So that would be a waste of time if you read it as an entertaining yourself and even if you would like to be instructed, it would encourage you to be static and not think of change or a dramatic one because the consequences will be not as expected. James Joyce as a nationalist writer might appeal to readers, but as a global one it's difficult for readers who are not familiar with the context of his works. I wonder why would they reward him as well recognised writer for such meaningless works with no plot or goals or entertaining stuff worthy to read.
I was lead to believe this was more a practical joke on literature more than a glorification of normal life...I still love the analysing of this book, which is more what I'd say this is...school of life tends to lead it's self to more optimistic ideas, even of the more stereotypically darker. It's such an uplifting channel that makes the Everyman have the chance to learn things in a way that's understandable and makes you want to read more!
Are you planning on doing any Latin American writer? I feel like Jorge Luis Borges would be very appropiate, even if you only do one from Latin America He was a genius (and is considered part of the western canon, too).
please please respond. is there any chance of a school of life in Dublin ? Joyce embodies a genuinely literary and philosophical aura in Dublin that is still there. please do consider it!
+The School of Life Thank you! I know it's obviously a massive step that won't be taken just because one person asked, but I'm actually quite surprised that the relatively nearby Dublin hadn't been considered already. Thank you for responding 😊
James Joyce is a realist modernist writer. His writings reflect the evolution of Dublin. If you read his collection of short stories Dubliners, you'll recognise that. A lot of readers accuse him and his stories that they don't contain a plot or a climax as if the events are like everyday life nothing nevel to add, but his short stories are full of epiphanies; sudden realisations. The plot of the story is circled around the conflicts of the mindset. How the effect of breaking routine is bringing to the human psyche its full consciousness when the implications of that deviation are unexpected. This emphasises the theme of paralysis and change. You look for these things in James Joyce's works and you will begin to immerse yourself in the narrative. Besides, James himself confirms that plot doesn't matter to be included in fiction which is confusing to some readers including me tbh. I read a couple of stories from his collection Dubliners and there were nothing spectacular. The work is restricted to target a certain readership in a particular period of time; it's not meant to be as Shakespeare's or other literary agents whose works imply a universal appeal as in canonical or classical works such as Les Miserables, Etc. So that would be a waste of time if you read it as an entertaining yourself and even if you would like to be instructed, it would encourage you to be static and not think of change or a dramatic one because the consequences will be not as expected. James Joyce as a nationalist writer might appeal to readers, but as a global one it's difficult for readers who are not familiar with the context of his works. I wonder why would they reward him as well recognised writer for such meaningless works with no plot or goals or entertaining stuff worthy to read.
This is wonderful, I did know that Joyce pushed idiosyncratic language on Finnegans Wake but I couldn't see the point. This perspective opened my mind; I will have to rethink french philosophers, structuralists and post-structuralists again. You did it again School of Life ...
I had trouble reading his novel Ulysses. Do you (or any one) have advice as to how one should go about reading it? I almost want to put it down and try again after Shakespeare; yet I feel there is something I can get from reading his works. Thanks
I would recommend you read or buy the annotated version of Ulysses, or some sort of practical guide you can easily find on Amazon. You can enjoy the prose, and better yet not lose any of the meaning at a cost of a little interruption here and there (which you will undoubtedly have anyway). Of course, it's always advisable you read his other books, particularly Dubliners beforehand. The Odyssey also helps, but not required, though that can help your reading comprehension in the long run too.
When I read it, I would read a chapter, then read the Sparknotes summary/analysis. Rinse and repeat. Some might consider this unscholarly, but I read for fun and not to write a thesis paper. I did the same with The Sound and the Fury. Otherwise, just a lot of re-reading might suffice. Also, I've heard good things about Ulysses Annotated which gives notes throughout. Happy reading!
I have not read anything else by Joyce other than Ulysses, so I'm not sure I can answer that. It might be more beneficial to read The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man first. It is not as intellectually challenging as Ulysses and introduces one of Ulysses' main characters: Stephen Dedalus.
Wow there is so much... So so much in the world to know... Also it's funny to know we/I/you are not the only one who jumps from feeding pigeons to a memory about school to sky to trains to some random friend. Thank you school of life for opening new doors to the unexplored world.
The captions to this video are actually like reading Joyce. They start off well but get less and less comprehensible as time goes on. (And I love Joyce btw!)
I guess I’m not a modernist, so just shoot me. To my mind, Joyce took the form of the novel beyond its capacities with Finnegan’s Wake. It’s a damned difficult read and it did not thrill me as his other writing has done. For example, Dubliners. This brilliant collection of short stories resonates with the narrator’s suggestion that to Joyce, the mundane elements of everyday middle-class life contain the building blocks that inspired Homer to write The Odyssey. In particular, the short story The Dead takes us from the banalities of a yearly holiday gathering into the unending love of the protagonist’s wife for a boy who died decades before. There is no leap, only a stretch between the niceties we speak to relatives each year, and the timeless bond between us and our loved ones that lasts long after death. As the snow falls on all of us, the living and the dead, so will memory keep us together forever.
'When I die, Dublin will be written in my heart.' Thank you James Joyce.
Some English sovereign said that about Calais but she used the word "found" which is actually more correct. I never bothered with Joyce but have fun with his silly quotes. He is famous for being hard to understand like my Chinese neighbor whom nobody ever heard of.
Upon starting to read a portrait of the artist as a young man. I quickly went from "what the hell" to "this is the most exquisite narrative of thought I've ever seen" truly marvellous!
A portrait of the artist as a young man is one of the most beautiful things ever written....
Ulysses is a masterpiece, but Dubliners is the most perfect piece of writing I'll probably ever read. Not difficult at all and it's endlessly sublime.
it sucxked and your feigned appreciation of it shows that you're just a midwit poser
'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' as well.
@@vozamaraktv-art5595portrait gets so difficult at times 😅
@@guidoguido2245 🙂
Joyce's style is more relevant today than ever considering the choppy, abbreviated and polluted thoughts we all experience in such an over-stimulating and informational existence
u smart
Your thought are maybe choppy but I won't generalize here
#Dubliners2019 ☘️🤯🇮🇪
Please leave me out of it ( we ) when commenting use " i " & speak for yourself please.
Its ok to speak about yourself.
Booouuy do you know some of the theories in his work? Plis tell meeee. I have a paper due.
there is no past, no future, everything flows in an eternal present... truer truth never spoken better...
I try reading Ulysses every now and then to deflate my Mr. know-it-all attitude. The ultimate leash for my intellectual pride.
It gets worse... what if you do *get it*? Then you're totally insufferable. It happened to me... had to move on to the harder stuff... Finnegans Wake...
But fortunately once you *get* that one, you're basically a God, ask Joseph Campbell
#Dubliners2019 ☘️🤯🇮🇪
Heeey can you plis tell me the theories in it?
Never be so certain of yourself
Well ulysses is my next TBR, so excited hope it helps me understand my self better.
"utterly baffling to a reader in a hurry"
Well said!
Ulysses is a crazy novel. There are so many references that go over my head.
Finally an Irish writer! You should look into doing Wilde or Beckett next
Do a Beckett one, please.
Brendan Behan, please.
JapanJohnny2012 I'm with you
any book recommendation from beckett?
Ben Macdowall +1 for Wilde
And here comes the voice that can calm my nerves. Just what I needed today. Thanks for today's lesson School of life.Best regards from your humble student :)
you're the one who calms their nerves, not something outside of you.
+Timothy Price hmm that's sensible. Well I just need a catalyst I guess and his voice seems to be a good one.
+noel Thanks for the recommendation. I'll surely go through the book
Aaru C
here's something that probably won't sound sensible. there is no you to calm your nerves, there are no nerves alone, and there are no catalysts.
+Timothy Price Not sensible for me but it's intriguing. but I may be a little on the not so bright side to get what you mean 😂
"I choose to press into my arms, the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
This quote, more than any other by Joyce, deeply resonates with me as a creative person. Always look ahead, break barriers and find beauty and meaning in places where other people are not looking.
"Art awakens us to mysteries we have, too quickly, grown blind to"
Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Joyce, the best writers who ever lived...
Tolkein too
don't forget Dante & Goethe & Hugo
Dostoevsky moans.
@@anuranbhattacharya9938 that's cuz hes gay
@@doyle8120 Then Tolstoy is even a greater one.
My favourite story about James Joyce: When Joyce and drinking buddy Ernest Hemingway faced a potential brawl, Joyce would hide behind his more imposing comrade and shout “Deal with him, Hemingway, deal with him!!!’
Mine is a when a fan asked to shake the hand that wrote Ulysses and he refused, saying "it's done other things"
@@stepatatime5388 Sylvia Beach related the story in her memoirs "Shakespeare and Company." I don't know where she learned this, but I also don't know why she would make this up.
#Dubliners2019 ☘️🤯🇮🇪
He and Nora slept head-to-foot.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can't
Do one on Fernando Pessoa please, he is a genius.
In this beautiful attempt at explaining what art is made for, this video becomes poetry itself. Thank you so much for this ❤
That Irish to Italian flag transition at 2:53 was so smooth. Great video!
I managed to read Ulysses over this previous summer. Until now, I found it impossible to properly describe my experience with the book, still yet this is partially true, yet this video does a fantastic job of condensing Joyce and his glamour. Of explaining what his books are, what they explore. Thank you for this clear and insightful video on Joyce, and helping his readers and nonreaders alike understand his baffling yet fascinating work.
Superb video. Thank you. I read Ullesses in college. What puzzled me was here was an ordinary man, doing ordinary things, yet I was not bored by the novel. Joyce magic.
Started Dubliners immediately after watching this. Thanks TSOL
This is and always will be the best youtube channel ever❤
"Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, further westwards, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling too upon every part of the lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
I love this man!
I thought of this last week when Snow was Falling all over Arizona.
Love Dubliners...
Pensé en el día que nevó en Santiago. Las clases en los colegios se suspendieron. Yo no fui a la oficina. Fui feliz.
i work on the bog of allen. a different place now than when he wrote it
Cut to Eric Idle....."bring oucha dead.... bring oucha dead..."
It's funny to me how Joyce is often considered advanced, confusing, boring, etc. I remember having to read some of his poetry in high school, and thinking it was fantastic. Why weren't we studying this guy more? And just as quickly, the curriculum never mentioned him again.
James Joyce's schizophrenia hadn't manifested in high school. His earlier writings are much better. If you read his writing in the order it was written- dubliners, a portait of an artist, ulysses, and the wake then you'll see that his career was nothing but a chronical of his descent into madness. There was nothing appealing or admirable about it, the scumbag elites just want us to believe that insanity is better than genius.
Hunter S Thompson deserves a video. His writing style created a new style of journalism and his books marked his quest for the "American Dream" as well as his dedication to mocking the corruption he saw all around. He is also one of the more misunderstood writers and I think the time is right to show everyone what went on in that bizarre mind of his.
I fucking love this channel.
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I love this fucking channel.
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Iubesc, de asemenea, tot ce canta si danseaza. La vida es sueño.
I read A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN in my freshman year in college. It was a great experience - the right book at the right time. Thank you Martin Glass for being my guide.
Wrong. You should have read the first pages when you were a toddler. Then the first chapter when you were 10. And follow the next chapters once you grew up, until the last ones when you started college ;-)
I can keep listening to the voice 25/24h .. mesmerizing
John Lennon read Joyce's works and subscribed to The James Joyce Quarterly journal. He loved Joyce's use of language and the humor in the word mash-ups and puns, such as in "Finnegan's Wake".
where did you hear that?
The source was a literary article published by Richard Gerber which talked about the influence of James Joyce and Lewis Carroll on John's writing. The article is titled "Goo Goo Goo Joob!:
The John Lennon/James Joyce Connection
Through Lewis Carroll’s 'Looking-Glass'". Here's the link: fisherpub.sjfc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=nepca
Cool, thanks.
Definitely. All one needs to do is read John's books, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works, to see Joyce's influence. 'No Flies, on Fred'! 😎
The way these videos are elucidatory is no less than breathtaking.
Thank you for that performance! It wasn't easy to present a writer such as James Joyce... Your videos are a real step for humanity.
The quality of these videos are outstanding . I bow to you the Creator of this channel .
Great video. Joyce is our national hero.
Him and Mark McCabe of Manic 2000 fame.
I learned more about writing my memoir from your videos than from writing class and writers who told me how I should write so I will begin again....
Well presented.
Burgess’s ‘A shorter Finnegans Wake’ is full of elucidating commentary.
One thing at variance with your interpretation of FW found there: there is a story to FW and it can be told in three sentences though it is hardly what the book is about since to do so needs ‘wideawake’ language and FW is a nocturne expressing the meld of images and languages for those melded images in sleep. The Ballad of Finnegan is simply used for its combination of the ordinary man in the ordinary situation with ordinary habits with the principle of christian resurrection (Fin=End in french; Egan=Again as in the other song Finnegan-Beginnagain.)
The ‘wide awake’ story is - a Dublin publican and his wife go to bed where they will make love for the very last time in their married life; a child wakes them up asking for a drink of water; they go back to sleep!
(If I remember accurately).
Ron Maimon
I report Burgess’s analysis concerning the ‘wide-awake’ story - I could have added that a little branch outside the bedroom keeps tapping the window pane: tp.........tp...........inside the dream story things are akin to what you say with the twins and the little sister.......
There is great poetry in the idea of the last carnal embrace of a couple sinking then into the tiredness of the spent energies of the world and the burgeoning world of metaphysic..........there is no spoiler since the exterior situation forms no part of the interior drama - it simply secures the relation between dream and reality, waking and sleep. The book is a Nocturne and Joyce wished to put as much into this different ‘element’ as Shakespeare put into the waking moments of his plays.
Another thing that Burgess points out is that in order to account for the range of erudite reference of the Dublin couple Joyce arranges his own - the author’s - dream to encompass theirs.
It is worth getting the book ‘A shorter Finnegans Wake’ to see all his other perceptions on the work. If you have issue - take it up with him (later.......)
Cheers.
I took a guided tour of Dublin courtesy James Joyce memorial with the guide taking us on the route taken by Bloom in Chapter 8 Lestrygonisns of Ulysses. The journey from O’Connell St through the heart of city centre of Dublin Bloom takes is at lunch time and involves his own lunch. This Chapter is supposed to represent the digestive system of human anatomy and when the route was lined out on a city map, it drew the digestive canal from mouth to colon stretching from the news paper office on and ending at the National Museum opposite Trinity College. Simply astounding! The attempt here to introduce such a complex genius is extraordinarily amazing. 👏👏👏👏
If you have read Ulysses then I'm impressed. That has got to be the most difficult book in the English language. Except for Finnegan's Wake, of course.
Ulysses is probably easier than Gravity's Rainbow to read if you were living in Dublin when it was published, but now you NEED a guide to understand Ulysses whereas GR is just monstrously difficult.
It's a wonderful book and really fun. Although tedious to read because one might need the aid of annotations and a couple of books but it is really impressive. How joyce plays with the structure of languages and his book is so unique. the key is to not really take it serious.
10:37 I think I heard that in Trainspotting. ;)
True, Irvin Welsh was deeply influenced by Joyce
Cool, thanks for the neat factoid. I didn't realize he was, but it makes sense.
James Joyce represented the character Bloom as everyone of us here today 👍❤️
Aldous Huxley? Would anyone else be interested in seeing a video on him by this channel?
Yes. I would very much appreciate a Huxley video by The School of Life.
very much
Yes
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That's a door, I wouldn't mind being opened.
I love james joyce work.I have read all his books and find there are easy to follow,Why say that James joyce story are so deep,so if you are deep person read his books will come easy for you.Well working on book that is very deep story lines.I think as human we need that to continue on reading.
Hemingway, I'd love an Analysis of his writing style
yes!!
yes please. the old man and the sea, one of my fav books, and the killers such an awesome short story... i love hemingway's iceberg theory
I'd rather they not
*****
you don't have to watch the vid if they make it.
***** why not?
I have been thinking about these type of things lately,
the stream of consciousness -
How rapid and impulsive our though shuffle through our minds
the inner world of all our routine thought patters and emotions and visions, its fascinating.
Its good perspective to zoom in on.
Dubliners is such a cool name for a book of small irish stories haha
James Joyce understood that at the end of the day, everybody is doing the best they can. And you don't have to be extraordinary to be a hero.
You should do a video on JK Huysmans. Fascinating writer.
HATSOFF TO THE NARRATOR OF THE VIDEOS, YOU BRING THEM TO LIFE! THANKS!
Consider Jorge Luis Borges for a future installment, please!
I prefer Borges.
I watched this after reading Ulysses and it made it a million times better
is there any way I can donate for the creators of this channel? I already have some of your books. but I do love, adore, and resoect your work and what we you are doing. thank you so much. I learn a lot better than majoring in English and Philosophy in college.
I would be very interested in the decision not to go the very popular patreon/crowdfunding route?
I would too.
Yeah, I don't want to buy stuff.
Lunicorn M.S. me too
There hasn't been a single writer that influenced my views on art and literature as much as this madman. Gotta re-read Portrait again at some point.
frankly, the view is profound. At the last, we will find that every literature masterpiece concludes a kind of unique art philosophy. Do you guys think so?
One of the greats British literarys to ever live .
These comments are painful to read.
Alexander DeLarge Why?
Joyce’s love letters are also painful to read
Fantastic! School of life has been getting better and better since I discovered it over a year ago. It's really wonderful that you share all of this. Think of all the interests you peeked, its things like this that make me love the internet.
I'm loving these videos. I was wondering if you have any plans of analyzing filmmakers? It would be awesome to see School of Life videos for guys like Bergman, Herzog, Tarkovsky, etc.
Wonderful summary of James Joyce’s life and some of his literature!
this could all be a lie, I would have no way of knowing
True that
How do you know you are not dreaming right now?
Alright Descartes
+pilotstyle123 I think therefore I am.. Cogito Ergo Sum... That's why
Tempelton Amor lmao
This video makes me thankful for James Joyce because I love Japanese slice of life shows. Nobody does slice of life better than the Japanese. I'm not talking about anime even though those are good also when I mean Japanese dramas. They take ordinary people doing ordinary jobs and they make it interesting and beautiful honestly watching slice of life Japanese shows can be heartwarming and relaxing and they just give you a sense of peace.
I love this channel. It would be neat to see a video on Victor Hugo
Happy Bloomsday! 🎉🎉🎉
You guys are proably drowning in suggestions but a video about Oscar Wilde would be awesome! With all due respect (really, I love and respect what you do), I'm surprised you don't already have one about him. Peace and Love, School of Life!
Authors are incredible sales men of the most ordinary things.
The problem with Joyce is that of exhaustion due to the difficulty of grasping the meanings
of his creations and his disconnections with meaningless language disconnected with
his creation of whatever manifests from his brain and sensations....who wants... to figure...
it all...out?
Duart Maclean Enthusiasts! After you have successfully understood what he wrote, it's like solving a difficult puzzle and you feel accomplished. That's the joy enthusiasts get when someone asks them why they need to make efforts to do that
I am a writer. My first novel is a stream, written as a framed narrative, using magic realism. It too delves into the human mind and fleshes out some interesting ideas through plot. It won't sell a copy. Well, maybe one that I'll have to pay for in the end. In 1968 I wrote a stream in college for a required paper. The professor loved it. He exclaimed how great it was as I titled it a Stream on Conciseness. There was just one problem. I misspelled Consciousness. Hahahah, yes funny but true. Yes, foolishly I admitted the error.
Anyway, I am a fan of JJ. I read Portrait at the insistence of my very well educated scholar professor brother-in law. He read some of the early pages of this effort. He knew my mind and figured he'd provide the introduction to JJ. I still thank him. I loved portrait because of the skill of JJ, not necessarily the subject matter. He stitches words together as fine as an Italian cobbler makes luxurious shoes. Maybe better. Now, to the point of this dribble; Thank you for this videos education. I finally sucked it up and decided to take on Ulysses. I didn't want to make the same mistake as i had when I read the Sound and the Fury by Faulkner. That is walk into the trap. So, I've been reading others ideas. Yours has to be one of the best presentations.
Again
Many Thanks
Az
Can you make a video on HP Lovecraft?
please, do make more videos on literature. i find them highly educational and worthy.
i absolutely love your channel. it helps with living. one question though: where are non Western writers? I've been waiting on Achebe for a while now. hopefully it's in the works. thanks
I've been wondering about this, too! Thanks for pointing it out :)
You have to start with the greats.
Brilliant writer. I love his style.
MrZanctum James Joyce is a realist modernist writer. His writings reflect the evolution of Dublin. If you read his collection of short stories Dubliners, you'll recognise that. A lot of readers accuse him and his stories that they don't contain a plot or a climax as if the events are like everyday life nothing nevel to add, but his short stories are full of epiphanies; sudden realisations. The plot of the story is circled around the conflicts of the mindset. How the effect of breaking routine is bringing to the human psyche its full consciousness when the implications of that deviation are unexpected. This emphasises the theme of paralysis and change. You look for these things in James Joyce's works and you will begin to immerse yourself in the narrative. Besides, James himself confirms that plot doesn't matter to be included in fiction which is confusing to some readers including me tbh. I read a couple of stories from his collection Dubliners and there were nothing spectacular. The work is restricted to target a certain readership in a particular period of time; it's not meant to be as Shakespeare's or other literary agents whose works imply a universal appeal as in canonical or classical works such as Les Miserables, Etc. So that would be a waste of time if you read it as an entertaining yourself and even if you would like to be instructed, it would encourage you to be static and not think of change or a dramatic one because the consequences will be not as expected. James Joyce as a nationalist writer might appeal to readers, but as a global one it's difficult for readers who are not familiar with the context of his works. I wonder why would they reward him as well recognised writer for such meaningless works with no plot or goals or entertaining stuff worthy to read.
Damn, the editing in these videos is just getting better and better
My favorite writer. Thank you.
You should do more Irish writers! Wilde and Yeats would be excellent, as well as Beckett, Heaney and Bernard Shaw.
I was lead to believe this was more a practical joke on literature more than a glorification of normal life...I still love the analysing of this book, which is more what I'd say this is...school of life tends to lead it's self to more optimistic ideas, even of the more stereotypically darker. It's such an uplifting channel that makes the Everyman have the chance to learn things in a way that's understandable and makes you want to read more!
Are you planning on doing any Latin American writer? I feel like Jorge Luis Borges would be very appropiate, even if you only do one from Latin America He was a genius (and is considered part of the western canon, too).
as a past reader of Joyce, this was a great deep dive!
Instead of going to grad school I read Ulysses.
Same, twice
Didn't work, I start at Wal-Mart next week
Learning web development though, sick of being poor
Just don't be like Stephen Dedalus and dawdle and drink away your genius. Be more like Bloom and go to work!
An author whose work i've been meaning to read for a long time now. Great video as always.
please please respond. is there any chance of a school of life in Dublin ? Joyce embodies a genuinely literary and philosophical aura in Dublin that is still there. please do consider it!
+The School of Life Thank you! I know it's obviously a massive step that won't be taken just because one person asked, but I'm actually quite surprised that the relatively nearby Dublin hadn't been considered already. Thank you for responding 😊
How about Geneva?... I know it's not the most interesting of cities... but I live there... Will you think about it?
Simply brilliant. Meaning james joyce and this channel.
Nice work! I hope "Borges" and "Poe" are on your list.
I (and others) asked. You delivered. Thank you so much!
i Dont read books, i just watch videos about books.
why?
Stig larsen History lesson.
you should still read it is good for you 😊
Refer to this comment when you realize you aren't a very interesting or intelligent person.
3rdcoastnyucka Yup
Who in the hell runs this channel? This was the most educational and informative video abut Joyce I've ever seen. You people must be pretty smart.
can you do one on william faulkner?
James Joyce is a realist modernist writer. His writings reflect the evolution of Dublin. If you read his collection of short stories Dubliners, you'll recognise that. A lot of readers accuse him and his stories that they don't contain a plot or a climax as if the events are like everyday life nothing nevel to add, but his short stories are full of epiphanies; sudden realisations. The plot of the story is circled around the conflicts of the mindset. How the effect of breaking routine is bringing to the human psyche its full consciousness when the implications of that deviation are unexpected. This emphasises the theme of paralysis and change. You look for these things in James Joyce's works and you will begin to immerse yourself in the narrative. Besides, James himself confirms that plot doesn't matter to be included in fiction which is confusing to some readers including me tbh. I read a couple of stories from his collection Dubliners and there were nothing spectacular. The work is restricted to target a certain readership in a particular period of time; it's not meant to be as Shakespeare's or other literary agents whose works imply a universal appeal as in canonical or classical works such as Les Miserables, Etc. So that would be a waste of time if you read it as an entertaining yourself and even if you would like to be instructed, it would encourage you to be static and not think of change or a dramatic one because the consequences will be not as expected. James Joyce as a nationalist writer might appeal to readers, but as a global one it's difficult for readers who are not familiar with the context of his works. I wonder why would they reward him as well recognised writer for such meaningless works with no plot or goals or entertaining stuff worthy to read.
please do Thomas Pynchon !
You mean a 1 minute video lol. Kidding of course, his books offer a lot. But his personal life, not so much.
I second this!
This is wonderful, I did know that Joyce pushed idiosyncratic language on Finnegans Wake but I couldn't see the point. This perspective opened my mind; I will have to rethink french philosophers, structuralists and post-structuralists again. You did it again School of Life ...
I had trouble reading his novel Ulysses. Do you (or any one) have advice as to how one should go about reading it?
I almost want to put it down and try again after Shakespeare; yet I feel there is something I can get from reading his works.
Thanks
I would recommend you read or buy the annotated version of Ulysses, or some sort of practical guide you can easily find on Amazon. You can enjoy the prose, and better yet not lose any of the meaning at a cost of a little interruption here and there (which you will undoubtedly have anyway).
Of course, it's always advisable you read his other books, particularly Dubliners beforehand. The Odyssey also helps, but not required, though that can help your reading comprehension in the long run too.
When I read it, I would read a chapter, then read the Sparknotes summary/analysis. Rinse and repeat. Some might consider this unscholarly, but I read for fun and not to write a thesis paper. I did the same with The Sound and the Fury. Otherwise, just a lot of re-reading might suffice.
Also, I've heard good things about Ulysses Annotated which gives notes throughout. Happy reading!
Thanks, I'll try something like this. Hm, maybe read some of his short stories first?
Spark notes sounds like a good idea. :) What do you think? Should I try reading some of his other short stories first?
Thanks
I have not read anything else by Joyce other than Ulysses, so I'm not sure I can answer that. It might be more beneficial to read The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man first. It is not as intellectually challenging as Ulysses and introduces one of Ulysses' main characters: Stephen Dedalus.
Wow there is so much... So so much in the world to know...
Also it's funny to know we/I/you are not the only one who jumps from feeding pigeons to a memory about school to sky to trains to some random friend. Thank you school of life for opening new doors to the unexplored world.
Nora : ah he is another piece of shit.
*falls in love with him anyway*
These are all wonderful. Please keep doing them as you can. Thank you.
Next Thomas Mann please!!!!!
Ja, bitte!
I second the motion.
6:49 such a good visualization of the style
Will you ever make a video about Salinger?
The graphics are brilliant, the account so easy to understand, so interesting and inspiring Thank you.
Do Orwell on writing good, clear, comprehensible English please.
The captions to this video are actually like reading Joyce. They start off well but get less and less comprehensible as time goes on. (And I love Joyce btw!)
some cool animations in this one
Wow, I was literally sitting and thinking when and who the next LITERATURE video would be about, and here it is.
Keep up the Irish literature. Oscar Wilde next!
I guess I’m not a modernist, so just shoot me. To my mind, Joyce took the form of the novel beyond its capacities with Finnegan’s Wake. It’s a damned difficult read and it did not thrill me as his other writing has done. For example, Dubliners. This brilliant collection of short stories resonates with the narrator’s suggestion that to Joyce, the mundane elements of everyday middle-class life contain the building blocks that inspired Homer to write The Odyssey. In particular, the short story The Dead takes us from the banalities of a yearly holiday gathering into the unending love of the protagonist’s wife for a boy who died decades before. There is no leap, only a stretch between the niceties we speak to relatives each year, and the timeless bond between us and our loved ones that lasts long after death. As the snow falls on all of us, the living and the dead, so will memory keep us together forever.