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Sure. I think GR was probably heavily influenced by Joyce and Ulysses specifically. I don't think it's a hot take. I just don't know that I personally would characterize it as a re-telling. GR even goes as far as having mixed format story telling (lots of songs/lyrics in GR) which feels a lot like what Joyce was doing with each chapter of Ulysses (but GR is much less extreme there and isn't as obviously experimental with completely different prose styles or text styles). I think there's a reason why they're often compared and considered the Modernist and Post-Modernist books that define each category.