Ulysses (Modern Classics (Penguin))
by James Joyce
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Author: James JoyceIntroduction: Declan Kiberd
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-07
ISBN: 0141182806
Number of pages: 939
Publisher: Penguin Books
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Book Review: !!!DAZZLO-SHINE!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
harlequin! poseidon! here is a work that not only achieved more leaps in linguistic innovation at its time but also, the sun beaming in profuse shower, a wild reinvention of plot and a rugged onslaught against tradition. joyce uses this ancient tale of a man's homecoming so as to put the microscope on the human and analyze him and all his cohorts, his battalions and his industry! he studies mankind with a depth that no author before or since has achieved. he delves into the conscience, intermixes himself in its folds and strata, writes what he sees and leave us with a vast resource with which to consider, study and conjecture! but not only that - not just a study, also a baffling surprise of linguistic advance! each chapter is radically different from the previous! each chapter is coherent unto itself, set apart from the rest of the book, each chapter employs a different style, concerns a different subject, each chapter riots, blazes and fumes, each chapter is flash-jolt of mental sundance. as we read the book we watch joyce grow and develop as an artist since we know that he wrote the chapters in chronological order. the third chapter, proteus, his first endeavor into the morph of linguistic innovation, seems awkward, almost a failure. later on he makes yet another bold stab with the sirens chapter yet once again we feel that perhaps he has not utilized his full resource of verbal platinum but then we watch him triumph in totalica with the circe chapter, a real ambush of drama, as he thus becomes the full-fledged master of english that he is known for. in the ithaca chapter once he again he amazes us not only with his skillfull use of vocabulary but also his splurging curiosity and his megalo-titantic wealth of knowledge. then finally we read the penelope chapter, a piece that perhaps probes the folds and recesses of the soul more so than any other piece in literature. it is a trophy of poetry, a capitalization on the self and a robust affirmation of life.
kyle foley, author of Lorelei Pursued and Wrestles with God
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