Anonymous asked: How was James Joyce associated with the Bloomsbury Group?

He wasn’t, not really; they were aware of him and read him, though, just as he did them. During her reading of Ulysses, Virginia Woolf likened it in her diary to the work of “a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.” Once she had finished, she went on to say, “I finished Ulysses, & think it is a mis-fire. Genius it has I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense. A first rate writer, I mean, respects writing too much to be tricky; startling; doing stunts.”

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