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This is hard work. ( ) 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. 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. 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.
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. This portrait of a day in the lives of three Dubliners remains a towering work, in its word play surpassing even Shakespeare. 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. The Best Novel Since 1900 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. Belongs to Publisher SeriesArion Press (27) Delfinserien (433) edition suhrkamp (1100) — 20 more Gallimard, Folio (5641) Keltainen kirjasto (60) Modern Library Giant (G52) Neue Folge (Bd. 100) Penguin Books (3000) Perpetua reeks (55) st (2184) A tot vent (414) Is contained inDubliners, A portrait Of The Young Artist, Ulysses (Three Acclaimed Classics In One Volume) by James Joyce 4 James Joyce Novels: Ulysses, Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man, The Dubliners, Chamber Music (Illustrated) by James Joyce 90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1): Novels, Poetry, Plays, Short Stories, Essays, Psychology & Philosophy by Various ESSENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLASSIC BANNED BOOKS: Adam Bede, Fanny Hill, Candide, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The Awakening, Sister Carrie, Women In Love, Madame Bovary, And Many More… by John Cleland Has the (non-series) sequelHas the adaptationWas inspired byThe Odyssey by Homer InspiredHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a studyHas as a commentary on the textHas as a concordanceHas as a student's study guideHas as a teacher's guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
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Penguin Australia2 editions of this book were published by Penguin Australia. Editions: 0141182806, 0141197412 |