Jonty Claypole
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He's also was very drawn to the idea of and he talked about this again to one of his students, of Odysseus as a wanderer.
And he said to a student, the motif of wandering, the motive.
Of the artist who will now lay down his life rather than renounce his interest is what he's drawn to in the Odyssey.
So the idea of Stephen and Leopold as these wandering characters wandering through the city, but they're aesthetic wanderers rather than physical wanderers in the way that Odysseus is.
So that's all going on too.
And the last thing we said in our portrait episode as well is that he hits on the Odyssey.
We felt partly because it gives them a way of getting beyond Stephen Daedalus.
And The Portrait of the Artist is a strikingly humorless book in comparison to Ulysses, which one of the most surprising things about it is it is a funny book.
It is witty.
You can have many strong feelings about Ulysses as a work of art, but it but it has a playfulness and a wit which is very beguiling.
helps draw you in at times when you're being infuriated by it.
But what he gets from the Odyssey is that the Odyssey of course begins with the story of Telemachus, who is the kind of Stephen Deedalus character, but Telemachus's journey in the Odyssey, in Homer's Odyssey, quickly sort of expands out, uh, and Odysseus's narrative takes over, and all the characters who Odysseus encounters.
And
I feel that Joyce uses Deodysse as a way of getting beyond Stephen Dedalus, who he's a little bit fed up with.
He uses it to start with Stephen, and then suddenly the story smash cuts to Leopold Bloom and all of the wider cast of of Dublin.
And so Deodyssey liberates him.
It liberates him away from the singularity of character that has dominated his work up until
That point.
Yeah.
And his his reading at this time into the Odyssey is really telling because he's thinking really, really hard, as you say, about Homer and the Odyssey.
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