James Joyce's " Ulysses ": A Study (Peregrine Books)
ISBN:
9780140550139 (0140550135)
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Lit Crit,
Literary Fiction,
Irish Literature,
Ireland
It’s hard to resist the idea of a guide to Ulysses endorsed by Joyce himself, but at times I wondered if Joyce’s approval of this book may have been a joke in itself. I’m almost certain that he parodied Gilbert’s pedantic and tiresome style somewhere in Ulysses. This book seems to be mostly a series...
When you need a 450-page book to understand an 800-page book, you are in deep water.