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

The Dubliners is my favorite of Joyce's work. I've read that, Portrait of an Artist..., and parts of Ulysses, and the short stories are the only ones I felt compelled to finish purely out of interest. Joyce is super dense, and there's a lot of other reading to be done if you're not enjoying it.

Dubliners is, in my mind, fantastic. Especially The Dead, as you have already stated.