Ulysses
by James Joyce
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Author: James JoyceEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1990-06-16
ISBN: 0679722769
Number of pages: 783
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: yes yes yes Leopold yes
Summary: 5 Stars
Incredibly to us, from our "modern" vantage point, "Ulysses"
was at one point suppressed in most of the civilized world
for its supposedly raunchy sex scenes. Today, we can see
that his fiction worked on much higher levels: his portrayal
of sex (and other things) is more inventive than Miller's,
more subversive than Mappelthorpe's. Joyce's intention is no
less than to create an entire mental universe; his novel is
a potent artistic answer to the philosophical question, "Do we really exist?"
Leopold Bloom, the hero of the story, is a completely ordinary man; but Joyce's combination of words and the proliferation of cross-connections between the current word and the next illustrate that there is often little connection between *what* we think and the *words* we think. So Joyce is in effect trying to write a novel without words; he wants to get into the stream of Bloom's thought directly, without preface or interference.
Though most would agree that this is a "difficult" novel -- perhaps the first book to attempt to break the limits of language -- it is a must-read. Bring the book on a picnic, along with your dictionary and a lot of time. The famous final chapter is worth all the work.
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