Jonty Claypole
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3 series
first heard Dec 2025
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And we then have what is one of the most famous lines from the book.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
So this is Stephen saying, You can forget all of those tropes and stereotypes that have kicked around for two things.
Thousand years.
All that is just prejudice and bias and bile that holds us back.
Stephen wants to wake up from history, to break from history and look at the world anew.
And he's not going to bring the old prejudices along with him.
It's a very powerful scene, and Joyce is writing this at a time when many writers were very happy to fill their books with.
Mm.
Yeah.
very lazy anti Semitic tropes and stereotypes.
I think that's completely right.
And at the start
When I said, let's separate separate out the conception of this book from the execution, what I was driving at there is the book he's conceiving before the First World War, when you're reading the sort of intentions he has, major alarm bells are going off.
You're like, uh oh, we've got more self-absorption, we've got more portrait of the artist coming our way.
But by the time he's actually getting down to write it in earnest, the first one.
World War has broken out and his life and the life of all Europe has been turned upside down.
And
I think the execution of the book goes in a in a way that must have surprised even him.
So, Sophie, let's take a quick break.
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