Sunday, 30 November 2014

"The Wasteland" as a gateway to "Ulysses"

In my last blog I wrote that James Joyce's Ulysses was beyond me.  This has not changed, but a recent podcast I heard on T. S. Eliot's epic poem The Wasteland gave me hope of one day understanding Joyce.  The podcast (and the Youtube video) is Nick Mount's lecture on TVO's Big Ideas.  I have copied the links below if you are interested.

http://bigideas.tvo.org/episode/138711/nick-mount-on-ts-eliots-the-wasteland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxF9xkB5o04

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The Restless Quest Novel Rankings (points)

  • Don Quixote (95)
  • Middlemarch (94)
  • Anna Karenina (94)
  • 1984 (93.5)
  • The Brothers Karamazov (93)
  • Moby Dick (91.5)
  • Candide (91)
  • War and Peace (87.5)