Scary challenge! His early stuff is fairly traditional, much what you'd expect from a young Irishman with his eyes open. The later books, Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, are characterised byword play - invented words, puns, stream of consciousness, portmanteau words. It's a very dense style, and I love it to bits, but some folk (well, most folk) find it hard to unpack.
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Date: 2010-07-13 09:35 pm (UTC)His early stuff is fairly traditional, much what you'd expect from a young Irishman with his eyes open.
The later books, Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, are characterised byword play - invented words, puns, stream of consciousness, portmanteau words. It's a very dense style, and I love it to bits, but some folk (well, most folk) find it hard to unpack.