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Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) (original 1922; edition 2000)

by James Joyce

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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.
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Title:Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
Authors:James Joyce
Info:Penguin Books Ltd (2000), Paperback, 1040 pages
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Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

  1. 321
    The Odyssey by Homer (_eskarina, chrisharpe)
    _eskarina: Joyce himself recommended Homer's epos to get better insight and understanding of Ulysses.
  2. 220
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (ZenMaintenance)
  3. 91
    Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (browner56)
    browner56: You will either love them both or hate them both, but you will probably need a reader's guide to get through either one--I know I did.
  4. 70
    The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil (roby72)
  5. 125
    Moby Dick by Herman Melville (ateolf)
  6. 62
    The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (roby72)
  7. 40
    The New Bloomsday Book by Harry Blamires (bokai)
    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.… (more)
  8. 51
    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (roby72)
  9. 30
    Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Othemts)
  10. 41
    Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach (andejons)
    andejons: For those who want to read about how the book was published (and other details about Joyce's life in Paris)
  11. 41
    Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin (rrmmff2000)
    rrmmff2000: Both books of a man in a city, celebrating human life in all its variety, and revelling in language.
  12. 31
    To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway (ateolf)
  13. 20
    The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin Birmingham (Cecrow)
    Cecrow: The (Non-fiction) story behind the novel's publication and its struggles with censorship.
  14. 10
    Omeros by Derek Walcott (TheLittlePhrase)
  15. 10
    James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner by Alfonso Zapico (drasvola)
    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.
  16. 10
    J R by William Gaddis (chrisharpe)
  17. 10
    The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch (chrisharpe)
  18. 00
    Stephen Hero by James Joyce (KayCliff)
  19. 11
    The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (chwiggy)
  20. 11
    Modernism: The Lure of Heresy by Peter Gay (charlie68, charlie68)
    charlie68: Book has section on Modernism in literature that includes a section on Ulysses.
    charlie68: A section deals in criticism of James Joyce and specifically Ulysses.

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This is hard work. ( )
  arturovictoriano | Mar 14, 2024 |
It took me three tries, spanning about 15 years, but with this last effort, I finally finished the book. I had hoped to feel completion came with an understanding of what Joyce set out to achieve. But alas, that was not the case. ( )
  danatdtms | Feb 29, 2024 |
That was the longest, most grueling (five week) day in my life. This was not my first attempt to read Ulysses. It was my fourth - the last was in 1991. I know this because a bookmark in Episode 3, where I abandoned it last, was my son’s invitation to his playmate’s fourth birthday party. I am glad I stuck it out this time, although I found so much of it tedious and dense. The last episode, supposedly an hour in Molly Bloom’s head, was the best in my opinion, although I am not sure I would have felt the same had I not simultaneously read the book and listened to the audio book. The episode has nearly no punctuation and few paragraph breaks. The reader orally paused, taking the guesswork out of it. I am not sure why Joyce chose that writing device. It felt sexist to me, as if only the men were capable of proper punctuation, even though their thoughts were at least as, if not more, rambling and often random. Lots of lovely prose sprinkled in though, lyrical and illustrative. I reached my private Everest. ( )
1 vote bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
If you like puzzles and poetry, and are not really interested in reading a story, you might like this book, at least if you take a year and read a hundred pages per month, taking time to analyze and ponder every single line. If this text was a long lost key to the 'grand unified theory of everything', or the only available record on the history and culture of the lost city of Atlantis, such an undertaking could be quite rewarding, since spending that long trying to tease some sense out of a text makes sense where the text has such value. Otherwise, who in their right mind would bother wasting so much time on so much drivel just for a tale about a couple drunk, sexist men in Dublin wandering about town after a funeral?

So, did I enjoy this book? Nope. Would I recommend this book? Nope. Are there thousands of books more worth spending time on compared to this book? Absolutely. I occasionally enjoyed the nerd-factor of recognizing references to other stories, books and authors, and there are lots of these references, but this enjoyment never quite made up for the pointlessness of focusing so much energy on just trying to focus on the text for a few more pages without getting too bored and annoyed. Some classics are just not that good, and this is one of them. ( )
  JBarringer | Dec 15, 2023 |
I've been trying to read this book since I was 14. It is by turns tedious and delightfully absorbing. Some parts really are just silly. It manages to be simultaneously pretentious and down-to-earth. It is definitely vulgar in parts. It's re-readable and readable over and over in many ways, and the culture of readership, interpretation, and biography that has accrued around it is part of the fun. If you are in Dublin it's a great way to explore Dublin. I enjoy it and I might come back to it. I have now made it all the way to episode 15, Circe, and this time I know I will finish it. I recommend following along with a good audiobook, reading aloud, attending a Joycean/Bloomsday event. It's actually fun. ( )
  puabi | Nov 21, 2023 |
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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.
added by vibesandall | editL'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.
added by vibesandall | editThe 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.
added by vibesandall | editThe Guardian, Eimear McBride (2014)
 
The Best Novel Since 1900
added by vibesandall | editThe 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.
added by vibesandall | editBoston Globe, Anne Enright (2008)
 

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Joyce, Jamesprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Andersson, ErikTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Aubert, JacquesIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Berkel, ChristianNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bindervoet, ErikTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Brandt, MatthiasNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Buhlert, KlausDirectorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Claes, PaulTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Deutschmann, HeikkoNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dewey, Kenneth FrancisIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ellmann, RichardPrefacesecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ernst, Morris L.Forewordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gabler, Hans WalterEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hamilton, RichardCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hülsmann, IngoNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Henkes, Robbert-JanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Johnson, JeriEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Joyce, Stephen JamesPrefacesecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kenner, HughIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kiberd, DeclanIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Klaußner, BurghartNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Koch, WolframNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Mallafrè, JoaquimTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Matthes, UlrichNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Melchior, ClausEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Milberg, AxelNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mokrovolsky, OleksandrTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Nys, MonTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Paladino, MimmoIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Saarikoski, PenttiTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Steppe, WolfhardEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Tellegen, ToonAfterwordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Terek, OleksandrTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Thalbach, AnnaNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Vandenbergh, JohnTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Vasileva, IglikaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Warburton, ThomasTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Watts, CedricIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Wollschläger, HansÜbersetzersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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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?
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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
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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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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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