This book was so impressive in many ways, but especially in its scope. Its scope of language uses/styles, of perspectives, of allusions. It has literally everything.I loved how in chapter nine when they're discussing Shakespeare, an attendant comes and announces people, just like in the plays. There...
I started off thinking Ulysses was a pile of incoherent drivel, even though I'd never got past the first page. At 20 I would sit in the uni bar getting pissed and slagging off literary types and lecturers who mentioned it (some of them were pretentious posers; some of them weren't). At 30 I decided ...
The life of the everyman in a single day in Dublin is the basic premise of James Joyce’s Ulysses, yet this is an oversimplification of the much deeper work that if you are not careful can quickly spiral down into a black hole of fruitless guesswork and analysis of what you are reading. Joyce’s gro...
I read through half the book and spent the second half reading through a Ulysses companion, attempting to understand exactly what was written. I can say that James Joyce undoubtedly had skill and was able to imbue humor into this story, but like most other readers of this lengthy novel I found it ve...
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. ...
bookshelves: classic, fraudio, britain-ireland, roman-catholic, poison, anti-semitic, epistolatory-diary-blog, summer-2012, re-visit-2015, film-only, paper-read, published-1920, dublin, spring-2015 Read from August 13, 2009 to March 07, 2015 Now why the leprechaun didn't someone mention that t...
I feel a bit of a philistine giving Ulysses two stars, but if I'm honest, I didn't enjoy it that much. Reading it was too much of a chore. I know it's supposed to be the greatest thing to happen to literature since the invention of the novel. But it's just way too obscure, and way too dense, and way...
I recently came across a list online of the top ten most "difficult literary works" and Joyce was naturally on the list. Of the novels listed I had read, I couldn't agree that Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, Melville's Moby Dick, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged or Solzhenitsyn's The G...
...Wow.I'm not sure quite what I can say about Gravity's Rainbow. I'm not sure I can even write a coherent plot synopsis. It's set in the Second World War - I did manage to work that much out. It follows a whole range of different characters as they cross the various blasted landscapes of WWII, all ...
I began a chapter-by-chapter review of James Joyce's Ulysses (which I have aborted - for now - at chapter 11: review here), but it began to feel too much like a summary, and there is nothing more impotent than trying to summarize Ulysses. Doing so is to very much miss the point. The longest way roun...
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