Sunday, February 02, 2020
Dubliners
James Joyce (2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941
Dubliners – first published June 15, 1914
1. The Sisters 0:19 2. An Encounter 18:29 3. Araby 36:29 4. Eveline 50:02 5. After the Race 1:00:32 6. Two Gallants 1:14:37 7. The Boarding House 1:37:42 8. A Little Cloud 1:53:53 9. Counterparts 2:23:28 10. Clay 2:46:23 11. A Painful Case 3:01:20 12. Ivy Day in the Committee Room 3:23:20 13. A Mother 3:55:04 14. Grace 4:21:02 15. The Dead 5:07:57
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Audio books go too fast for me. I have dipped into The Dubliners but not read in full. Frankly, I am somewhat ambivalent about Joyce. I lack the necessary patience, these days. Maybe had I been younger, when my patience with others' words was close to infinite. Ah well, I am sure his legacy will survive my ambivalence, obviously. Peake's Gormenghast, for example, I loved, aged 19; but now, on revisiting, I can't be bothered. Everything depends on attitude, eh?
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Andrew, what depends on audio books. There is one story, though, that I read four times to an audience, and when it came to the end could not stop crying, with tears running down my cheeks and snod in my nose. I then decided to not try it again, 'cause I know the same will happen. The story is "Counterparts" (2:23:28).
DeleteThank you for the links. I much prefer to read than to hear. But, in the absence of the book, those videos, at least give you a small idea of what it's all about.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I don't think that people are meant to understand James Joyce. Just to puzzle him out.
I prefer to read, too, Claude.
DeleteOnce I was given the complete "Tristram Shandy", once "Under the Milkwood". Several times I started the first CD, fell asleep, and never went on with the second.
Still, I think audio-books are wonderful, especially for blind people.