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...wrote the above praise some 46 years ago, Pynchon has indeed succeeded in turning staggering promise into staggering achievement. His third novel, 1973’s “Gravity’s Rainbow,” is one of those works—like Joyce??s “Ulysses” or Wallace’s “Infinite Jest”—that literary junkies force themselves to read and pray that they’ll one day understand. He has received a National Book Award (for that novel), a MacArthur...
...delay. Our interpretation is that Hamlet is crushed to the ground by his inexorable fate, by the weight of the world, the weight of his scenario. That interpretation is very Joycean, because Ulysses is about this complex thing, which is a very crushing atmosphere.” Joyce??s references to Hamlet in his own works also had concrete influences on the play. “There are some surprises I want to keep for the show, but basically, Joyce has a discussion in ‘Ulysses’ that is very subtle about Hamlet being...
...While Updike excelled in a number of different genres, Menand said that he especially admired Updike’s short stories, which he said he would place at the level of Hemingway’s and James Joyce?...
...prior owner of my copy of The Prince, for example, thought it necessary to repeatedly point out a certain “Machiavellian” quality he was picking up on in the text. Someone else used the margins of James Joyce??s Dubliners to observe how “very Irish” it all was. And a reader of my German history textbook circled every single word in a wholly unimportant paragraph, and then wrote “Hitler was a man” in the margin...
...group explained to me the context of Christian interpretation of the law. But I felt most at home when we started discussing how these passages were applicable to our daily lives. As an intense literature-nerd, this kind of analysis was very familiar. When I was reading Joyce??s “Ulysses,” I couldn’t help but think how I could be more empathetic, like the work’s protagonist, Leopold Bloom. But this wasn’t Joyce, this was the Bible. And these weren’t English majors...