"The only demand I make of my reader, is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works." This statement is brutally honest. I'd really like to believe the man had a little more humility than what is presented here. Perhaps this statement was meant to cause some type of cataclysmic reaction within the literary world. Countless scholars and literary critics have been baffled by his writing. Finnegans Wake is considered to be one of the author's more controversial pieces (completed as the sequel to Ulysses). When Joyce was asked why the style was so difficult, he replied, "To keep the critics busy for three hundred years." So far, he's kept them busy for over a hundred.
I came across a random link that brought me to erotic love letters written by Joyce to his lover Nora. I read through a couple of the letters, and questioned if it was morally correct to read them. These are very explicit. I really can't believe that someone had the balls to publish them in a book. Feeling snoopy?
Go here.
The man had no shame, and I applaud his methods. His writing continues to challenge generations through an ever shifting society. Without a challenge we accept defeat.
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