Ulysses

Novel by James Joyce

Blurb

Ulysses er den kendteste af James Joyces romaner. Ulysses udkom i 1922. Dele af romanen blev i årene 1918-1920 bragt i tidsskriftet The Little Review.
Romanen er en parafrase over Homers Odyssé. Den bygger på en lang række af Joyces meget personlige oplevelser, som han lader hovedpersonen Bloom opleve i Dublin i løbet af den 16. juni 1904. Dagen kaldes nu Bloomsday og fejres hvert år af Joyce-fans verden over. Ulysses er med sine litterære henvisninger til græsk mytologi og katolsk tro lige så svær at læse, som den er elsket. Hvert af de 18 kapitler er skrevet i sin specifikke litterære stil. Mest berømt er Molly Blooms indre monolog. Det anses for at være et vanskeligt tilgængeligt værk på grund af de mange stilbrud. Litteraturen om Ulysses er uhyre omfattende.

First Published

1922

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Aleksandra.marinkovic

There are two and a half (almost three reasons) why this book is the Mount Everest of English literature. 1. If you are not Irish and/or Catholic you will not know half the references; 2. If you are not educated and well read, you will not know the other half; 3. Joyce experimented hard and heavy! #3 also makes it absolutely worth reading!

0 Responses posted in January

Walter.kailey

The book is vulgar and almost impossible to follow, at least in audio form. It jumps around, and the narrator is constantly using metaphors involving bodily waste, bodily fluids, and other unpleasant imagery. What anyone could see in this book mystifies me. I also don't understand how ReadGeek recommended it to me, based on other books I've rated. I'm very disillusioned with the ReadGeek recommender algorithm. As a software engineer, I understand how such algorithms are supposed to work, and I consider this a blunder of the first water.

0 Responses posted in November

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