Jonty Claypole

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9,840 appearances 30 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 8 Sep

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And he dismisses it.

He abandons it.

He calls it the same old bag of tricks following the same old grooves of literature.

All it's doing is doing what other writers have done before.

And the things that are showing him a different path are as follows.

One, he's completely obsessed by D'Annunzio, the Italian revolutionary novelist and

paramilitary fascist.

He'd read a book by D'Annunzio called The Triumph of Death.

Another book he discovers is a book by a French writer called Edouard Dujardin.

The novel is called Les Laurieres S'Occuper, which translates as The Laurels Are Cut.

And in it, Dujardin, it's actually from 1887, he pioneers a very early form of stream of consciousness.

And the book, it's an interior monologue following a few hours in the mind of a student who fantasizes about eloping with an actress.

So the idea of compacting the entire plot of a novel

into a sort of real-time interior monologue following human thought is the thing that's really striking to Joyce.

And also the idea that a student fantasizing about an actress is a subject worthy of literature, I think is hanging around as well.

There's also these incredibly radical movements happening in Italy.

In 1909, Marinetti, the futurist, was another proto-fascist Italian.

There were a lot of them about.

D'Annunzio and Marinetti both ended up worshipping a Mussolini.

And Marinetti was a writer and journalist who created an art movement called Futurism.

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