John Fante vs. James Joyce
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
John Fante
1909 – 1983
John Fante was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust (1939) about the life of Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer in Depression-era Los Angeles. It is widely considered the great Los Angeles novel, and is one in a series of four, published between 1938 and 1985, that are now collectively called "The Bandini Quartet." Ask the Dust was adapted into a 2006 film starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek.
"I pulled the huge door open and it gave a little cry like weeping. Above the altar sputtered the blood-red eternal light, illuminating in crimson shadow the qui…"
James Joyce
1870 – 1931
James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, best known for works such as Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Finnegans Wake.
"His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether …"
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