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James Joyce pays homage to Homer's Odyssey, drawing on many of the Greek poet's themes with this eighteen-part novel. Set in 1922 Ireland, when the city of Dublin was rife with social unrest and radical nationalism, Ulysses chronicles a day in the life of Leopold Bloom as he navigates the city on his usual routine. However, his disdain for violence, indifference for Irish independence, and his embitterment for his adulterous wife leave Bloom in a series of predicaments.… (more)
bokai: The Bloomsday Book is a book length summary of James Joyce's Ulysses. It informs the reader of the general plot, of particular references in Ulysses to events in other books (most usually Dubliners)and includes a minimum of commentary, usually focusing on the religious aspects of the novel. For someone reading Ulysses with a limited knowledge of Joyce, Ireland, or Catholicism, this book may be the deciding factor in their enjoyment of the novel itself.… (more)
drasvola: This book is a graphic narration of Joyce's life. It's in Spanish. Very well done and informative about Joyce's troubled relation with society, his work and family relationships.
FINISHED!!! This was my 4th attempt to read ULYSSES over the course of about 10 years, and finally progressed through the whole work. I'd read for 50 or so pages, put it to the side while I read something else, then came back to it and picked up where I left off. Not that the book didn't hold my attention, because it did, but that the density and complexity of the text I could only handle in those smaller segments. Hence taking 10 months from fresh start to last page. I know this is on several "Top-100" novels lists (http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098best-novels-list.html) and I can see why. The depth, the breadth, the complex vocabulary and sentence structure, and the inventiveness of Joyce's narrative over the course of the day in the live of his central character. I found that I needed to read quietly, audibly, to myself over many of the passages in order to really perceive the cadence and rhythm of the content. This was particularly true in the ending chapter/sentence... Molly Bloom's soliloquy. That took me several days to read. My favorite section was the one just prior to that... the Question and Answer session between the 'narrator' and the principle character that the narrator is questioning... I don't remember if that was Leopold Bloom or Stephen Dedalus. ( )
Няма да поставям оценка на книгата, защото не съм я прочел. След стотина страници, смятам, се запознах достатъчно с нея, за да ми стане ясно, че няма да ми е интересна.
Какво е толкова гениалното в нея не видях, освен ако хилядите явни и прикрити референции не се броят. Какво е референция? Ами примерно в разговор за това, колко е поскъпнал животът, да кажеш "А помня времето, когато джойнтът беше левче." и другия да се сети, че това е от песен на Ъпсурт и да се подсмихне.
Одисей е пълна с (и поради тях почти нечитаема) огромно количество такива (според мен) на моменти напълно излишни и насилени референции към неща, които са били популярни през 1912 г. когато Джойс е писал - загатнати неприлични вицове, песни, персонажи от древногръцката митология (това особено често) и т.н. заради които половината книга е всъщност бележки под линия, обясняващи тия референции.
А да, и за стотината страници двамата герои едва успяха да станат от масата. Тва ако не е задъхано действие не знам кое е...
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
Quotations
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
The bard's noserag! A new art colour for our Irish poets: snotgreen. You can almost taste it, can't you?
With? Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and Whinbad the Whaler and Ninbad the Nailer and Finbad the Failer and Binbad the Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and Minbad the Mailer and Hinbad the Hailer and Rinbad the Railer and Dinbad the Kailer and Vinbad the Quailer and Linbad the Yailer and Xinbad the Phthailer.
As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so does the artist weave and unweave his image.... In the intense instant of imagination, when the mind, Shelley says, is a fading coal, that which I was is that which I am and that which in possibility I may come to be. So in the future, the sister of the past, I may see myself as I sit here now but by reflection from that which I then shall be.
The famous diagram ... charts the 18 episodes, allocating to each its appropriate art, colour, symbol, technique and organ of the body.
Last words
and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
James Joyce pays homage to Homer's Odyssey, drawing on many of the Greek poet's themes with this eighteen-part novel. Set in 1922 Ireland, when the city of Dublin was rife with social unrest and radical nationalism, Ulysses chronicles a day in the life of Leopold Bloom as he navigates the city on his usual routine. However, his disdain for violence, indifference for Irish independence, and his embitterment for his adulterous wife leave Bloom in a series of predicaments.
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Grad student door stop. Tree that I would never see One hand clapping ‘yes’. (SomeGuyInVirginia)
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