>>7036544>ModernistProust is modernist but entirely different from Joyce, he feels much more like a 19-th century author which is why I recommended him. A read of the opening of his first novel tells you the style he uses throughout.
Also Joyce isn't really meant to be started on with Ulysses, his first two works are much more normal. Ulysses is a good work you get in the right mindset, and thus can really understand it, but it was explicitly said that Joyce created a lot of the book for scholars so it does take a lot of recuperation to fully understand - take that as you will. I can't tell you how to understand Ulysses, but it took me several re-readings of the opening pages to get a full understanding of what Joyce was doing and thus the book became great not because of the (structural) complexity but because it reaches deep into how we think and perceive the world - I only read like 30 pages though. The book comments on a lot of things going on at the time, and a lot of themes, because it is trying to explore entire human identities in one day.
>>7036556Please make sure you read him, you will understand perfectly what I mean from the first sentence. His entire philosophy was designed for you, I am surprised you didn't read him already. Also, this reminded me that I went to see Wagner's Siegfried at the Royal Opera house recently and that there are a lot of connections between Wagner and Schopenhauer.
