For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, his wife Molly, and a scintillating cast of supporting characters, Joyce pushes Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishingly wide-ranging allusions confirm its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition. Declan Kilberd says in his introduction that Ulysses is 'an endlessly open book of utopian epiphanies. It holds a mirror up to the colonial capital that was Dublin on 16 June 1904, but it also offers redemptive glimpses of a future world which might be made over in terms of those utopian moments.'
This edition is the standard Random House/Bodley Head text that first appeared in 1960.
James Joyce (1882–1941), the eldest of ten children, was born in Dublin, but exiled himself to Paris at twenty as a rebellion against his upbringing. He only returned to Ireland briefly from the continent but Dublin was at heart of his greatest works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. He lived in poverty until the last ten years of his life and was plagued by near blindness and the grief of his daughter's mental illness.
If you enjoyed Ulysses, you might enjoy Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, also available in Penguin Classics.
'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the twentieth century'
Anthony Burgess, Observer
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Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 649 pages. Cover worn A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's Ulysses is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This Penguin Modern Classics editio n includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. n nFor Joyce, liter ature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. Capturing a single day in the lif e of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephe n Dedalus, his wife Molly, and a scintillating cast of supporting characters, Joyce pushes Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splend id extremes. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verba l inventiveness and astonishingly wide-ranging allusions confirm its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition. Declan Kilberd says in his introduction that Ulysses is 'an endle ssly open book of utopian epiphanies. It holds a mirror up to the colonial capital that was Dublin on 16 June 1904, but it also of fers redemptive glimpses of a future world which might be made ov er in terms of those utopian moments.' n nThis edition is the st andard Random House/Bodley Head text that first appeared in 1960. n nJames Joyce (1882-1941), the eldest of ten children, was bor n in Dublin, but exiled himself to Paris at twenty as a rebellion against his upbringing. He only returned to Ireland briefly from the continent but Dublin was at heart of his greatest works, Uly sses and Finnegans Wake. He lived in poverty until the last ten y ears of his life and was plagued by near blindness and the grief of his daughter's mental illness. n nIf you enjoyed Ulysses, you might enjoy Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, also available in Pen guin Classics. n n'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the great est novel of the twentieth century' nAnthony Burgess, Observer. Seller Inventory # 3183n
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 649 pages. Cover wornA modernist novel of supreme stylistic i nnovation, James Joyce's Ulysses is the towering achievement of t wentieth century literature. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. n nFor Joyce, litera ture 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written b etween 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, his wife Molly, and a scintillating cast of supporting characters, Joyce pushes Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendi d extremes. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishingly wide-ranging allusions confirm i ts standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition. D eclan Kilberd says in his introduction that Ulysses is 'an endles sly open book of utopian epiphanies. It holds a mirror up to the colonial capital that was Dublin on 16 June 1904, but it also off ers redemptive glimpses of a future world which might be made ove r in terms of those utopian moments.' n nThis edition is the sta ndard Random House/Bodley Head text that first appeared in 1960. n nJames Joyce (1882-1941), the eldest of ten children, was born in Dublin, but exiled himself to Paris at twenty as a rebellion against his upbringing. He only returned to Ireland briefly from the continent but Dublin was at heart of his greatest works, Ulys ses and Finnegans Wake. He lived in poverty until the last ten ye ars of his life and was plagued by near blindness and the grief o f his daughter's mental illness. n nIf you enjoyed Ulysses, you might enjoy Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, also available in Peng uin Classics. n n'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greate st novel of the twentieth century' nAnthony Burgess, Observer. Seller Inventory # 3200t
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