McCartney Times

Not only is James Joyce responsible for typifying modern Ireland, but he’s also responsible for championing the literary movement colloquially known as “internal monologue”. And although internal monologues don’t make for the most accessible of literature for the more intermittent reader, it fits the world of pop almost perfectly.

Unsurprisingly, there have been a number of artists too numerous to mention in this piece, who have borrowed from the Irish scribe. Buzzcocks frontman Steve Diggle likens his writing to the cinematic medium, and Leonard Cohen felt captivated by the minimalism Joyce used during the close part of ‘The Dead’.

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