We all know him. Even if some of us have yet to dedicate themselves specifically to his works, at some point in their literary incursions the name of the Irishman must have stricken them, or some sentence of his. Dubbed the best writer of the 20th century by some, anathematized by others, considered a genius, classified as illegible sometimes, the truth is that James Joyce has enjoyed a tremendous, nearly menstruous notoriety, and, above all, he produced a work that was to shape many following works that ensued after other, very talented too writers read him.
So, the question is, which authors are close to Joyce's style, for that's what is mainly at stake in any of his books, the style, that supreme interest... The early Beckett? Saul Bellow? Thomas Pynchon? Faulkner? Anthony Burgess?
Who writes like Joyce? Who massacres the language seeking to make it ''speak''? Who pores endlessly over language, who gives style such attention that it becomes the main aspect of his book? Who is known to write in an arcane, indecipherable idiom? Whose books requires the same level of concentration and sustained effort? Who is an avant-garde master, or a veritable perpetuator, for that matter.
Some excerpts to compare with Joyce's would be great!!
