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After Joyce's teacher introduction I am very interested on his narrative techinque, the stream of consciuosness. I think this technique provides the possibility of the textual plurality of interpretations. In reader's mind it is necessary to add punctuation, as a consequence the meaning of the text changes from person to person because the punctuation order changes. For this reason I think Joyce's Ulysses it is a very difficult novel to read. But I every time ask myself: why did Joyce adopt this particular narrative technique? Probably because he lives during Modernist period, influenced by Virginia Woolf's moment of being for example. But probably his narrative technique has been influenced by Joyce's interior feelings, for example pain. So, I think that Joyce probably has written his novel in suffering, for this reason he adopted a narrative style which coincides with his tourmented interior being.
This creates a tight relationship between James Joyce's Ulysses and Julia Kristeva's "From Jesus to Mozart", taken from "Bisogno di credere", which I have previously red and analyzed. Julia Kristeva discuss about suffering and its meaning through different areas, from religion to psychology. I agree with her ideas, in that music is an example of escape from suffering. I always listen to music which is my passion, I play many instruments and I produce different genres of music, and I have to say that MUSIC IS THE BETTER WAY TO ESCAPE FROM SUFFERING. I listen to music every time I can: while I am driving, during home-to-school travel, and so on. Each musical genre evokes different feelings: hard rock music evokes strenght, hardstyle evokes power, house music evokes happiness. All of them help me to forget matters and most of times change my interior being. Any way, I think Julia Kristeva has forgotten a "kind" of suffering. She only deals with suffering as "a mouring from happiness", but I think that a big pain (for instance a parent's death) it is not only a lack of happiness. I strongly believe that small sufferings are moments of smaller happiness than normality, but big sufferings are pains which change your personality. Why do I assure this? Because any way even if we feel a small suffering we continue our life which is not a continuous tourment; we have to live that small moments of happiness life gives us, forgetting other sad moments.