Declan Kiberd has poured into this huge volume far more knowledge than I can expect to pick back out. I have to say that it took a huge effort to physically read in its entirety, and I had many breaks for other reading, but I was drawn back and onwards because virtually every chapter had its own fas...
Declan Kiberd has poured into this huge volume far more knowledge than I can expect to pick back out. I have to say that it took a huge effort to physically read in its entirety, and I had many breaks for other reading, but I was drawn back and onwards because virtually every chapter had its own fas...
There once was an author who lived in the lovely Italian seaside town of Trieste. It is not a town that I have visited, though I would like to one day, and it wasn't all that long ago that he lived there, relatively speaking of course. This author decided one day that he would like to write a book. ...
I finished this a couple of days ago, flew to the other side of the continent, and am right now jetlagged. So, maybe not the best time to be trying to sit down and review Ulysses.Or maybe it's exactly the right time. Maybe when I"m tired and not thinking straight is the only time to sit down and let...
"I am a part of all that I have met;Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fadesFor ever and forever when I move."Ulysses - by Lord Alfred TennysonTennyson's words may not have been the inspiration behind James Joyce's work, however, as all powerful poems ...
(Geneva, late 2012. Plainpalais market, a riotous display of phallic vegetables, ill-smelling cheese and trash literature. THE REVIEWER and his GIRLFRIEND walk through the stalls hand in hand. Polyglot conversations around them.)THE REVIEWER: Now here's a significant quote."My methods are new and ar...
Okay...so I read it. It was really slow going. I did listen to the free LibriVox recording at times, when I just couldn't muster the energy to focus. Honestly, listening to an audio-recording made the book more vivid and interesting. You could spend your whole life studying Ulysses. There are innume...
Fantastic.As always (and perhaps in honour of Joyce) I have some stream of consciousness style blah to say.The biggest problem with Ulysses is that it's too bloody long. Yes, Joyce's literary tricks are fun and impressive, but they go on and on and on and they start to drag. The first time I read it...
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