About James Joyce

 James Joyce

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    James Joyce is a fascinating author to me. To be honest, all those short story authors are quite unique. Living in Korea, most short stories written has plots shown in it. But, in James Joyce and Chekhov’s one, there are things hidden under the story. Sometimes, it was hard, even understanding a character’s act. Maybe the lack of background informations takes a bug portion of this phenomena.

    Korean short stories are mostly based on Japanese Imperialism Period, Gap between rich and the poor, old generation vs new generation. But Joyce gives us something slightly different. Corruption of Church, Death, pure vs impure, light, and even more. These unfamiliar things are obstacles making it harder to read. But, these obstacles gives us some points to think. Something more about the fundamentals. For example, about death. We don’t usually think of death as we normally live, but we always wonder what is beyond death. Joyce pulls themes familiar but at the same tome unfamiliar to daily lives, and puts us to think of it. 

    The hardest prt of reading Joyce is that we can think further in his ending. Sure, this gives us a good point to think, but, sometimes it gives us a feeling of unfinished. Reading Chekhov’s story was hard because of the open endings. We don’t know how they will act later on. Too many possibilities. These makes me interpret the story more than needed. Over interpreted story is a bad story to me, because it sometimes goes against author’s purpose of writing. 

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