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Ulysses

(Everyman's Library, 100)

By James Joyce

(260)

| Hardcover | 9780679455134

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Book Description

The most famous day in literature is June 16, 1904, when a certain Mr. Leopold Bloom of Dublin eats a kidney for breakfast, attends a funeral, admires a girl on the beach, contemplates his wife’s imminent adultery, and, late at night, befriends a drunken young poet in the city’s red-lighContinue

Critics

McCrum on Ulysses

Even as it was printed, the text of Ulysses was flawed. The combination of Joyce's failing eyesight, the textual palimpsest of the manuscript, and the inevitable glitches of foreign printing produced a version of Joyce's authorial intentions (if thos ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sun, 26 Sep 2010

Newlysses

The book remains difficult but entertaining, and the difficulties will not have been erased by the carefully edited text. To Joyce scholars the situation will be somewhat different: there will be new areas of illumination and a sense of having arrive ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sun, 26 Sep 2010

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16 Reviews

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It was great, but I am afraid I won't do it again :)

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Meeshell said on Jan 28, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Jun/16/2010: I'll give the Ulysses the n+1-esim try. This time in English. I really do not have any high expectations, but you never know...
Jun/18/2010: Two pages, so far. Not a great advance but at leas I understood everything this time. I'll see what else I can do.
Jun/20/2010: I've came out with ... (continue)

Jun/16/2010: I'll give the Ulysses the n+1-esim try. This time in English. I really do not have any high expectations, but you never know...
Jun/18/2010: Two pages, so far. Not a great advance but at leas I understood everything this time. I'll see what else I can do.
Jun/20/2010: I've came out with an strategy: read at least one page per day. This way it will take me almost two years to complete it, but I will be able to say that at least I deciphered all the symbols stamped on the pages...
Jun/24/2010: A man is shaving his face. He is talking nonsense things to another man while he shaves. From now on, I will only update this post if anything interesting happens in the book.
Jun/27/2010: Something awesome has happened! I understood one idea in this book: one man is unhappy because he thinks that the other one made fun of the death of his mother.
Jul/02/2010: I am very proud to say that I reached a line with several stars that seems to be some kind of division. I have understood pretty much all of what has been said, but the only thing that really made sense to me was a criticism of the way americans eat, which looks exactly as though it was written for today's american eaters.

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ariadna73 said on Jun 17, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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diffiiiiicile...

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Michela said on Jan 31, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Could not keep reading

Sorry but the characters did not grab me enough to make me want to keep reading and the style was not exactly user friendly either. You can't complain about something you haven't fully read but there are few books that grab me so little that I abandon them

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Tui said on Sep 30, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

It took me several months to read. I started to really like it and (sort of) understand it only at about the second half.
But it's enormously rewarding. It's an amazing book, maybe the best I've ever read. So moving, so impossible to define. Genius.

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Matteo Pittoni said on Jan 4, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

I'm sorry...

but the emperor has no clothes. Joyce throws in everything but the kitchen sink, so it's bound to have some appeal, at some point, to just about anyone. Sure, it can be clever and witty. But not in a way that makes you smile to yourself. More in a way that makes you cringe at the deliberateness ... (continue)

but the emperor has no clothes. Joyce throws in everything but the kitchen sink, so it's bound to have some appeal, at some point, to just about anyone. Sure, it can be clever and witty. But not in a way that makes you smile to yourself. More in a way that makes you cringe at the deliberateness of the joke. In my opinion this entire book (up to page 400something at least) comes across as overtly self-conscious; trying so very very hard to be difficult and enigmatic and deliberately verge just short of incoherence. Inventive or not, I simply found the stream-of-consciousness prose to be tedious. I threw this in the bin at page 400-something.
Unless you need to say you have read this, I'd recommend that you don't start. For what its worth...

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jp0001 said on Apr 25, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback