'When I die, Dublin will be written in my heart.' Thank you James Joyce.

Joyce's style is more relevant today than ever considering the choppy, abbreviated and polluted thoughts we all experience in such an over-stimulating and informational existence

I try reading Ulysses every now and then to deflate my Mr. know-it-all attitude. The ultimate leash for my intellectual pride.

A portrait of the artist as a young man is one of the most beautiful things ever written....

Ulysses is a masterpiece, but Dubliners is the most perfect piece of writing I'll probably ever read. Not difficult at all and it's endlessly sublime.

"utterly baffling to a reader in a hurry" Well said!

My favourite story about James Joyce: When Joyce and drinking buddy Ernest Hemingway faced a potential brawl, Joyce would hide behind his more imposing comrade and shout “Deal with him, Hemingway, deal with him!!!’

there is no past, no future, everything flows in an eternal present... truer truth never spoken better...

Ulysses is a crazy novel. There are so many references that go over my head.

"Art awakens us to mysteries we have, too quickly, grown blind to"

I fucking love this channel.

Finally an Irish writer! You should look into doing Wilde or Beckett next

Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Joyce, the best writers who ever lived...

It's funny to me how Joyce is often considered advanced, confusing, boring, etc. I remember having to read some of his poetry in high school, and thinking it was fantastic. Why weren't we studying this guy more? And just as quickly, the curriculum never mentioned him again.

Do one on Fernando Pessoa please, he is a genius.

And here comes the voice that can calm my nerves. Just what I needed today. Thanks for today's lesson School of life.Best regards from your humble student :)

In this beautiful attempt at explaining what art is made for, this video becomes poetry itself. Thank you so much for this ❤

I read A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN in my freshman year in college. It was a great experience - the right book at the right time. Thank you Martin Glass for being my guide.

"I choose to press into my arms, the loveliness which has not yet come into the world." This quote, more than any other by Joyce, deeply resonates with me as a creative person. Always look ahead, break barriers and find beauty and meaning in places where other people are not looking.

Aldous Huxley? Would anyone else be interested in seeing a video on him by this channel?

That Irish to Italian flag transition at 2:53 was so smooth. Great video!

If you have read Ulysses then I'm impressed. That has got to be the most difficult book in the English language. Except for Finnegan's Wake, of course.

"Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, further westwards, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling too upon every part of the lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." I love this man!

Started Dubliners immediately after watching this. Thanks TSOL

Hunter S Thompson deserves a video. His writing style created a new style of journalism and his books marked his quest for the "American Dream" as well as his dedication to mocking the corruption he saw all around. He is also one of the more misunderstood writers and I think the time is right to show everyone what went on in that bizarre mind of his.

Dubliners is such a cool name for a book of small irish stories haha

Hemingway, I'd love an Analysis of his writing style

Thank you for that performance! It wasn't easy to present a writer such as James Joyce... Your videos are a real step for humanity.

John Lennon read Joyce's works and subscribed to The James Joyce Quarterly journal. He loved Joyce's use of language and the humor in the word mash-ups and puns, such as in "Finnegan's Wake".

I managed to read Ulysses over this previous summer. Until now, I found it impossible to properly describe my experience with the book, still yet this is partially true, yet this video does a fantastic job of condensing Joyce and his glamour. Of explaining what his books are, what they explore. Thank you for this clear and insightful video on Joyce, and helping his readers and nonreaders alike understand his baffling yet fascinating work.

The way these videos are elucidatory is no less than breathtaking.

Superb video. Thank you. I read Ullesses in college. What puzzled me was here was an ordinary man, doing ordinary things, yet I was not bored by the novel. Joyce magic.

Great video. Joyce is our national hero.

These comments are painful to read.

I learned more about writing my memoir from your videos than from writing class and writers who told me how I should write so I will begin again....

I can keep listening to the voice 25/24h .. mesmerizing

Well presented. Burgess’s ‘A shorter Finnegans Wake’ is full of elucidating commentary. One thing at variance with your interpretation of FW found there: there is a story to FW and it can be told in three sentences though it is hardly what the book is about since to do so needs ‘wideawake’ language and FW is a nocturne expressing the meld of images and languages for those melded images in sleep. The Ballad of Finnegan is simply used for its combination of the ordinary man in the ordinary situation with ordinary habits with the principle of christian resurrection (Fin=End in french; Egan=Again as in the other song Finnegan-Beginnagain.) The ‘wide awake’ story is - a Dublin publican and his wife go to bed where they will make love for the very last time in their married life; a child wakes them up asking for a drink of water; they go back to sleep! (If I remember accurately).

The problem with Joyce is that of exhaustion due to the difficulty of grasping the meanings of his creations and his disconnections with meaningless language disconnected with his creation of whatever manifests from his brain and sensations....who wants... to figure... it all...out?

My favorite writer. Thank you.

The quality of these videos are outstanding . I bow to you the Creator of this channel .

this could all be a lie, I would have no way of knowing

Consider Jorge Luis Borges for a future installment, please!

as a past reader of Joyce, this was a great deep dive!

Keep coming back to this. Great job 👍

frankly, the view is profound. At the last, we will find that every literature masterpiece concludes a kind of unique art philosophy. Do you guys think so?

is there any way I can donate for the creators of this channel? I already have some of your books. but I do love, adore, and resoect your work and what we you are doing. thank you so much. I learn a lot better than majoring in English and Philosophy in college.

An author whose work i've been meaning to read for a long time now. Great video as always.

Just wonderful! Thank you very much.

Damn, the editing in these videos is just getting better and better

You should do a video on JK Huysmans. Fascinating writer.

These are all wonderful. Please keep doing them as you can. Thank you.

I (and others) asked. You delivered. Thank you so much!

Instead of going to grad school I read Ulysses.

I'm loving these videos. I was wondering if you have any plans of analyzing filmmakers? It would be awesome to see School of Life videos for guys like Bergman, Herzog, Tarkovsky, etc.

Wonderful summary of James Joyce’s life and some of his literature!

HATSOFF TO THE NARRATOR OF THE VIDEOS, YOU BRING THEM TO LIFE! THANKS!

I love this channel. It would be neat to see a video on Victor Hugo

i Dont read books, i just watch videos about books.

Wow, I was literally sitting and thinking when and who the next LITERATURE video would be about, and here it is.

Fantastic! School of life has been getting better and better since I discovered it over a year ago. It's really wonderful that you share all of this. Think of all the interests you peeked, its things like this that make me love the internet.

Can you make a video on HP Lovecraft?

You should do more Irish writers! Wilde and Yeats would be excellent, as well as Beckett, Heaney and Bernard Shaw.

Epitome of an iconoclastic literary genius!

Yes! Been wanting this for so long!

Nora : ah he is another piece of shit. *falls in love with him anyway*

some cool animations in this one

I just love how he says "Since I fed the BIRDS" and "Maaaaaah"

Will you ever make a video about Salinger?

You guys are proably drowning in suggestions but a video about Oscar Wilde would be awesome! With all due respect (really, I love and respect what you do), I'm surprised you don't already have one about him. Peace and Love, School of Life!

Bravo James Joyce!!! Bravo +School of Life!!! Thank you😘

I took a guided tour of Dublin courtesy James Joyce memorial with the guide taking us on the route taken by Bloom in Chapter 8 Lestrygonisns of Ulysses. The journey from O’Connell St through the heart of city centre of Dublin Bloom takes is at lunch time and involves his own lunch. This Chapter is supposed to represent the digestive system of human anatomy and when the route was lined out on a city map, it drew the digestive canal from mouth to colon stretching from the news paper office on and ending at the National Museum opposite Trinity College. Simply astounding! The attempt here to introduce such a complex genius is extraordinarily amazing. 👏👏👏👏

i absolutely love your channel. it helps with living. one question though: where are non Western writers? I've been waiting on Achebe for a while now. hopefully it's in the works. thanks

Are you planning on doing any Latin American writer? I feel like Jorge Luis Borges would be very appropiate, even if you only do one from Latin America He was a genius (and is considered part of the western canon, too).

This is and always will be the best youtube channel ever❤

This video makes me thankful for James Joyce because I love Japanese slice of life shows. Nobody does slice of life better than the Japanese. I'm not talking about anime even though those are good also when I mean Japanese dramas. They take ordinary people doing ordinary jobs and they make it interesting and beautiful honestly watching slice of life Japanese shows can be heartwarming and relaxing and they just give you a sense of peace.

can you do one on william faulkner?

Keep up the Irish literature. Oscar Wilde next!

Simply brilliant. Meaning james joyce and this channel.

Thank you so much!

when will the school of life cover Shakespeare?

Next Thomas Mann please!!!!!

I have been thinking about these type of things lately, the stream of consciousness - How rapid and impulsive our though shuffle through our minds the inner world of all our routine thought patters and emotions and visions, its fascinating. Its good perspective to zoom in on.

“Eveline” from Dubliners is one of my favorites.

Nice work! I hope "Borges" and "Poe" are on your list.

please do Thomas Pynchon !

I am a writer. My first novel is a stream, written as a framed narrative, using magic realism. It too delves into the human mind and fleshes out some interesting ideas through plot. It won't sell a copy. Well, maybe one that I'll have to pay for in the end. In 1968 I wrote a stream in college for a required paper. The professor loved it. He exclaimed how great it was as I titled it a Stream on Conciseness. There was just one problem. I misspelled Consciousness. Hahahah, yes funny but true. Yes, foolishly I admitted the error. Anyway, I am a fan of JJ. I read Portrait at the insistence of my very well educated scholar professor brother-in law. He read some of the early pages of this effort. He knew my mind and figured he'd provide the introduction to JJ. I still thank him. I loved portrait because of the skill of JJ, not necessarily the subject matter. He stitches words together as fine as an Italian cobbler makes luxurious shoes. Maybe better. Now, to the point of this dribble; Thank you for this videos education. I finally sucked it up and decided to take on Ulysses. I didn't want to make the same mistake as i had when I read the Sound and the Fury by Faulkner. That is walk into the trap. So, I've been reading others ideas. Yours has to be one of the best presentations. Again Many Thanks Az

You guys are truly amazing! My fav channel!

When I hear this intro, I'm waiting for "Kelly, can you handle this..." 😓

William Faulkner, please.

To clarify, Ulysses is Roman, Odysseus is Greek. The conflation between these two names are regrettably common.

The captions to this video are actually like reading Joyce. They start off well but get less and less comprehensible as time goes on. (And I love Joyce btw!)

You should do Vladimir Nabokov next

Do Orwell on writing good, clear, comprehensible English please.

Great that you put "the brief wondrous life of Oscar wao" among the important novels in the beginning.

I'm in love with your channel, School of Life! Especially your videos regarding Literature and Eastern Philosophy. I have a request: I'd be ecstatic if you made a video or videos featuring Beat writers like Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Borroughs.

Could you make a video on how to become a philosopher?

please please respond. is there any chance of a school of life in Dublin ? Joyce embodies a genuinely literary and philosophical aura in Dublin that is still there. please do consider it!

James Joyce understood that at the end of the day, everybody is doing the best they can. And you don't have to be extraordinary to be a hero.

I love james joyce work.I have read all his books and find there are easy to follow,Why say that James joyce story are so deep,so if you are deep person read his books will come easy for you.Well working on book that is very deep story lines.I think as human we need that to continue on reading.

Sounds like Joyce took great pleasure in screwing with people's heads. It would drive me insane to read his work. Although I do understand the mundane scramble of thought language.