![]() ![]() For nine years, UlyssesReader has consumed the novel’s inner. ![]() This edition is the standard Random House/Bodley Head text that first appeared in 1960. The corpus on which it feeds is James Joyce’s modernist epic, Ulysses, which was published a hundred years ago this month. 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.’ Joyce’s Ulysses was a key influence for the American composer Elliott Carter.In the late 1940s Carter began reading Joyce and Proust, discovering in them his way of working. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishingly wide-ranging allusions confirm its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition.ĭeclan Kilberd says in his introduction that Ulysses is ‘an endlessly open book of utopian epiphanies. 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. The book Ulysses led to an obscenity trial in 1933 in which a district judge, addressing First Amendment freedom of expression, refused to declare the book. ![]() Written between 19, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd.įor Joyce, literature ‘is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man’. A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce’s Ulysses is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. ![]()
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