Ulysses
A Irish Literature, European Literature, Novels book. If Socrates leaves his house today he will find the sage seated on his doorstep. If...
The most famous day in literature is June 16, 1904, when a certain Mr. Leopold Bloom of Dublin eats a kidney for breakfast, attends a funeral, admires a girl on the beach, contemplates his wife’s imminent adultery, and, late at night, befriends a drunken young poet in the city’s red-light district.Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous & unreadable. In a 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--tho he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its...
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When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once James Joyce, Ulysses // If Socrates leaves his house today he will find the sage seated on his doorstep. If Judas go forth tonight it is to Judas his steps will tend. Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves. James Joyce, Ulysses // A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce, Ulysses //
Reviewed in August 2012This review is my attempt to reclaim Ulysses from the academics. My edition was a simple paperback without notes or glossary but containing a preface which I intend to read after I've written my review. I'll probably look at other reviews too, as frankly, I'm suffering withdrawal symptoms from the world of this... When I was in my late teens I purchased a copy of Ulysses on the advice of some acquaintance (now forgotten) who assured me that it was the pinnacle of literary achievement; that it was the greatest novel ever written. For many years that copy has languished on the shelf, its pages gradually yellowing between pristine covers and intact... There's a tricky question
