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AnSionnachRua  ·  4079 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Where do I begin to understand James Joyce?

    3. Agree that Joyce was important in his time for experimentation. If you like experimental prose, there are plenty of modern-day experimenters that you might find more readable.
This is important. A lot of writers are still considered brilliant because they wrote what they wrote at a particular historical moment.

So something might read as sort of crappy, but at the time it was revolutionary.

I think this is why I found On The Road unremarkable, but so many others thought it was great.