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Overview
Journey into the labyrinthine world of James Joyce's Ulysses, a literary masterpiece that reimagines Homer's epic Odyssey within the vibrant streets of 20th-century Dublin. This groundbreaking novel unfolds over a single day, June 16, 1904, as it follows the meandering paths of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, two complex characters navigating the mundane and the profound.
Joyce's stream-of-consciousness writing style delves into the innermost thoughts and desires of his characters, weaving a tapestry of human experience and cultural exploration. Within the ordinary, he uncovers the extraordinary, tackling themes of identity, alienation, love, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world.
Ulysses is a testament to the power of language and the complexity of the human psyche, pushing the boundaries of narrative form. A literary landmark, it challenges readers to venture into the depths of its intricate narrative, promising a transformative journey through the ordinary and the profound.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781396324222 |
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Publisher: | Left of Brain Books |
Publication date: | 02/02/2024 |
Pages: | 576 |
Product dimensions: | 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.57(d) |
About the Author
Bob Joyce is a grand-nephew of James Joyce, and is on the board of the James Joyce Centre in Dublin.
Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Children’s Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O’Neill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairéad Ashe Fitzgerald. She lives in a thatched house in Co. Wexford.
Bob Joyce is a grand-nephew of James Joyce, and is on the board of the James Joyce Centre in Dublin.
Date of Birth:
February 2, 1882Date of Death:
January 13, 1941Place of Birth:
Dublin, IrelandPlace of Death:
Zurich, SwitzerlandEducation:
B.A., University College, Dublin, 1902Website:
http://www.jamesjoyce.ieRead an Excerpt
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
Introibo ad altare Dei.
Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called up coarsely:
Come up, Kinch. Come up, you fearful jesuit.
Solemnly he came forward and mounted the round gunrest. He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding country and the awaking mountains. Then, catching sight of Stephen Dedalus, he bent towards him and made rapid crosses in the air, gurgling in his throat and shaking his head. Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him, equine in its length, and at the light untonsured hair, grained and hued like pale oak.
Buck Milligan peeped an instant under the mirror and then covered the bowl smartly.
Back to barracks, he said sternly.
He added in a preacher's tone:
For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine: body and soul and blood and ouns. Slow music, please. Shut your eyes, gents. One moment. A little trouble about those white corpuscles. Silence, all.
He peered sideways up and gave a long low whistle of call, then paused awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth glistening here and there with gold points. Chrysostomos. Two strong shrill whistles answered through the calm.
Thanks, old chap, he cried briskly. That will do nicely. Switch off the current, will you?
He skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his gown. The plump shadowed face and sullen oval jowl recalled a prelate, patron of arts in the middle ages. A pleasant smile broke quietly over his lips.
The mockery of it, he said gaily. Your absurd name, an ancient Greek.
Table of Contents
Map: Dublin c. 1904Abbreviations
Introduction
Composition and Publication History
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of James Joyce
ULYSSES
Appendix A: The Gilbert and Linati Schemata
Appendix B: Ulysses: Serialization and Editions
Appendix C: Errata
Explanatory Notes
What People are Saying About This
One of the most remarkable features of Ulysses is its interest as an investigation into the nature of human consciousness and behavior...Joyce has studied what we are accustomed to consider the dirty, the trivial and the base elements in our lives with the restlessness of a modern psychologist; and he has also...done justice to all those elements in our lives which we have been in the habit of describing by such names as love, nobility, truth and beauty.
"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."
-The New York Times
"To my mind one of the most significant and beautiful books of our time."
-Gilbert Seldes, in The Nation
"Talk about understanding "feminine psychology" I have never read anything to surpass it, and I doubt if I have ever read anything to equal it."
-Arnold Bennett
"In the last pages of the book, Joyce soars to such rhapsodies of beauty as have probably never been equaled in English prose fiction."
-Edmund Wilson, in The New Republic
Introduction
"We tried to pick books that were of great merit and proven over time." -- Christopher Cerf, chairman of the Modern Library Editorial Board
On Monday, July 20th, the editorial board of the Modern Library released a list of the 100 best English-language novels of the century. Topping the list was Ulysses, the unique, original novel that recounts a day in the lives of a group of Dubliners. The same book that was banned in the United States from 1920 to 1933 for obscenity now tops the list of novels written in English in this century, followed in descending order by The Great Gatsby, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, Lolita, and Brave New World.
The editorial board that created this list comprised Christopher Cerf, Gore Vidal, Daniel J. Boorstin, Shelby Foote, Vartan Gregorian, A. S. Byatt, Edmund Morris, John Richardson, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., and William Styron. The top five novels originally tied for first place, all selected by nine out of ten editorial board members. Then, in another vote, the board members listed the books in order, resulting in the conclusive top five.
All the judges agreed that Ulysses was deserving of the rank of top book of the century. James Joyce was a brilliant author who, many think, ignited modern literature much as Picasso ignited 20th-century art. Joyce spent seven years working on this novel, as evidenced in his masterful prose. But is it the best English-language novel of the 20th century? Why are there only eight women on the list of 100? Is Catcher In the Rye really the 64th best novel of our century?