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A day in the life of Leopold Bloom, whose odyssey through the streets of turn-of-the-century Dublin leads him through trials that parallel those of Ulysses on his epic journey home.
bokai: The Bloomsday Book is a book length summary of James Joyce's Ulysses. It informs the reader of the general plot, of particular references in Ulysses to events in other books (most usually Dubliners)and includes a minimum of commentary, usually focusing on the religious aspects of the novel. For someone reading Ulysses with a limited knowledge of Joyce, Ireland, or Catholicism, this book may be the deciding factor in their enjoyment of the novel itself.… (més)
drasvola: This book is a graphic narration of Joyce's life. It's in Spanish. Very well done and informative about Joyce's troubled relation with society, his work and family relationships.
Réputé illisible, le chef-d'oeuvre de l'écrivain irlandais est-il en passe de disparaître ? Il semblerait plutôt qu'il soit d'attaque pour traverser un nouveau siècle.
afegit per vibesandall | editaL'express, Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld(Feb 19, 2022)
This portrait of a day in the lives of three Dubliners remains a towering work, in its word play surpassing even Shakespeare.
afegit per vibesandall | editaThe Guardian, Robert McCrum(Aug 4, 2014)
Joyce really set my universe on its end. Reading Ulysses changed everything I thought about language, and everything I understood about what a book could do. I was on a train on the way to a boring temp job when I was about 25; I got on at Tottenham, north London, and opened the first page of Ulysses. When I got off at Liverpool Street in central London, I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say the entire course of my life had changed. Although he is viewed as terribly serious and cerebral, so much of the pleasure of reading Joyce is the fun he has and the risks he takes with language; there is nothing quite so enjoyable as the much-maligned Joycean pun.
afegit per vibesandall | editaThe Guardian, Eimear McBride(2014)
The Best Novel Since 1900
afegit per vibesandall | editaThe Atlantic, Ben W. Heineman Jr.(Nov 29, 2010)
I don’t want to get away from him. It’s male writers who have a problem with Joyce; they’re all “in the long shadow of Joyce, and who can step into his shoes?” I don’t want any shoes, thank you very much. Joyce made everything possible; he opened all the doors and windows. Also, I have a very strong theory that he was actually a woman. He wrote endlessly introspective and domestic things, which is the accusation made about women writers—there’s no action and nothing happens. Then you look at Ulysses and say, well, he was a girl, that was his secret.
To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came to admire Joyce even more because he never ceased working, those words and the transubstantiation of words obsessed him. He was a broken man at the end of his life, unaware that Ulysses would be the number one book of the twentieth century and, for that matter, the twenty-first.
afegit per vibesandall | editaThe Atlantic, Edna O’Brien(Apr 20, 2000)
''Ulysses,'' that sprawling, difficult, but uniquely original masterpiece by James Joyce...
afegit per vibesandall | editaNew York Times, Paul Lewis(Jul 20, 1998)
...be suffused with the Joycean incandescence...
afegit per vibesandall | editaThe Observer, Anthony Burgess(Jun 13, 1993)
This brilliant job of editing, matched by a brilliant introduction, has polished the greatness to a high shine.
That remarkable work of scholarship, labor, and love, however, ran to three volumes in heft and rang up at $200 in price. Here, then, comes the single-volume trade-book edition of the same edited and restored text, placing the great novel, in as close to its originally-intended form as can be achieved, within reach of the common reader.
[The Gabler edition] fixes 5,000 errors . . . involving punctuation, omitted words, phrases, and even entire sentences, an average of seven flaws for every printed page.
Ulysses will immortalize its author with the same certainty that Gargantua immortalized Rabelais, and The Brothers Karamazov immortalized Dostoyevsky.... It comes nearer to being the perfect revelation of a personality than any book in existence.
Ulysses will immortalize its author with the same certainty that Gargantua immortalized Rabelais, and The Brothers Karamazov immortalized Dostoyevsky.... It comes nearer to being the perfect revelation of a personality than any book in existence.
It’s a novel published after about 1910. It’s a novel that takes the traditional elements of place and time and mashes them up and reorders them. It attempts to capture the flow of human thought and human experience on the page in words and has no apparent interest in the conventions of the Victorian novel. It’s trying to represent the ordinary world in prose. Ulysses is a very brilliant, highly original attempt to put one man’s experience on one day to the pages of a book
It is seen as the archetypal stream of consciousness novel. With more ambition than possibly any other writer, Joyce tries to get us into the inner monologues and dialogues of Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus. He didn’t invent the technique. but he makes it flourish in the most extraordinary way.
This novel is still—after nearly a century—powerful, innovative and exhilarating. There is more going on in one sentence in Ulysses than there is in most contemporary novels.
It’s challenging, learned, filthy, and hilarious. In it, Joyce pushes the boundaries of language and the novel form. It’s easy to see how it was thwarted and censored four times during publication. At first, no one wanted to print it, because they could’ve been found liable for publishing pornography. Ulysses is one of those great novels that demands a level of concentration one can only get in isolation. Yes, it’s difficult and frustrating, but that’s because it wants to frustrate you—and the payoff is immense pleasure: no book gets closer to the ineffable experience of human play and tragedy, of being a fleshy mass of blood and bones in the modern world
During the one exciting day in Dublin, Joyce turns the mind of Bloom inside out.
afegit per vibesandall | editaThe New York Times, John Chamberlain(Jan 25, 1934)
James Joyce, who has Just shaken the literary world to its foundations with "Ulysses.- a titantic work that has caused lesser worthies to feel like giving up their craft in despair.
afegit per vibesandall | editaThe South Bend Tribune(Dec 31, 1922)
...Ulysses is a work of high genius.
afegit per vibesandall | editaThe New Republic, Edmund Wilson(Jul 5, 1922)
most important contribution that has been made to fictional literature in the 20th century.
Mr Joyce indicates both with infinite humour and with extraordinary precision.
afegit per vibesandall | editaThe Observer, Sisley Huddleston(1922)
I hold this book to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape.
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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
The bard’s noserag! A new art colour for our Irish poets: snotgreen. You can almost taste it, can’t you?
With? Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and Whinbad the Whaler and Ninbad the Nailer and Finbad the Failer and Binbad the Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and Minbad the Mailer and Hinbad the Hailer and Rinbad the Railer and Dinbad the Kailer and Vinbad the Quailer and Linbad the Yailer and Xinbad the Phthailer.
As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so does the artist weave and unweave his image.... In the intense instant of imagination, when the mind, Shelley says, is a fading coal, that which I was is that which I am and that which in possibility I may come to be. So in the future, the sister of the past, I may see myself as I sit here now but by reflection from that which I then shall be.
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and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
A day in the life of Leopold Bloom, whose odyssey through the streets of turn-of-the-century Dublin leads him through trials that parallel those of Ulysses on his epic journey home.
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