Ulysses

Novel by James Joyce

Blurb

Uliks je roman Jamesa Joycea. Uliksa je Joyce pisao desetak godina: od 1914. do 1924. godine. U jednom pismu iz 1921. kaže kako je samo dotad na pisanje Uliksa utrošio oko dvadeset tisuća sati. Uliks je roman dug oko osam stotina stranica čija se cjelokupna radnja zbiva u Dublinu, od osam ujutro 16. lipnja 1904. do tri sata poslije ponoći sutradan, 17. lipnja. Radnja se koncentrira na tri glavna lika: sredovječni bračni par - Leopolda i Marion Bloom, te na mladog pjesnika Stephena Dedalusa, glavnog junaka Joyceovog prethodnog romana Portret umjetnika u mladosti. Važno je ovo spomenuti jer su i neki epizodni likovi iz Portreta i iz Dablinaca prisutni u Uliksu. No zašto se izvanredno istinita i realistična freska Dublina od prije stotinjak godina zove tim homerskim naslovom?
Ovako kaže Joyce: "Lik me Odiseja uvijek opčinjavao, čak i kao dječaka." Mnogi kritičari gledali su na Uliksa kao na novu verziju Odiseje, gdje bi Leopold Bloom tokom svojih svakodnevnih ljetnih gradskih šetnji parodično predstavljao Uliksa, njegova brakolomna žena Molly čednu Penelopu, a Stephan Telemaha.

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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