Christopher Cagle’s Reviews > THE PORTABLE JAMES JOYCE - FOUR OF JOYCE'S 6 BOOKS, COMPLETE, PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, EXILES (A PLAY) COLLECTED POEMS, DUBLINERS (SHORT STORIES) SELECTED PASSAGES FROM ULYSSES AND FINNEGANS WAKE > Status Update

Finished A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. Now I need to go back and read Dubliners. Anyway, this is my second time through the novel and it was like reading a new book. I don’t remember the first time I read it. My primary goal was to understand Joyce’s aesthetic theory, but alas here it is incomplete. Cribs Aquinas and Plato. Best to start by asking “metaphor or marketplace?”

I’m specifically (re)reading A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. Something in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, vol. 2, Within a Budding Grove (part II), regarding the definition of art, triggered me to pick this back up. And, yes, I’m reading them at the same time. This volume includes Dubliners, Exiles, Collected Poems, and excerpts from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. These will have to wait for after Proust.