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Showing posts with label Ulysses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ulysses. Show all posts

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Wednesday, February 22, 2017


Frank Delaney's "Joyce-cast" 

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Ulysses

Purchased: in Dublin, June 1975. Read: finally cover to cover in Nanaimo, October 2016. "And now my last evening. A day of some walking and shopping and pleasure at being able to get around this city (and pleasure that I don't have to stay and try to support myself here). A shower. The most wonderful refreshing thing. And a very beautifully bound and set copy of Ulysses. A present to me. Wishing me all the best.” Encountered: Bergman and Fellini; Flann O’Brien (and Myles na Gcopaleen) and Monty Python and Terry Gilliam; much mocking and sneering and hilarious parodies; grand scale opera-on-acid featuring bizarre kaleidoscopic hallucinations with detailed staging and costume direction; Lewis Carrol, Alice and Wonderland (“First the verdict and then the trial!”); several different narrators and voices and an unseen examiner who asks dozens of questions that might be found on a college exam (In what order of precedence, with what attendant ceremony was the exodus from the house of bondage to the wilderness of inhabitation effected?); and the stunning brilliant Molly Bloom soliloquy that I saw Siobhán McKenna perform at the Gate Theatre on O'Connell Street in 1975. Ulysses.
I “acquired” this Anthony Burgess book on Joyce years ago. There’s a card in it indicates that apparently I was supposed to return it to the Mount Pleasant Library in 1972. Burgess points out as many have that Ulysses is a great comic novel. It served as a useful guide and there’s a vast number of resources on line to bring perspective and road maps into the reading of Ulysses. Burgess calls it a labyrinth. 

"Ulysses is a book to own, a book to live with, to borrow it is probably worth than useless, for the sense of urgency imposed by a time-limit for reading it fights against the book’s slow pace, a leisurely music that requires an unhurried ear and yields little to the cursory, newspaper-nurtured eye… Ulysses is, like Paradise Lost, an auditory work and the sounds carry the sense… [T]he whole book has a spatial scheme in which time has been divested of its bullying hurry-along authority… Time is the great enemy, and books like Ulysses and Finnegans Wake triumphantly trounce it. Time has to be put in its place. 

Ulysses, then, is a labyrinth which we can enter at any point, once we have satisfied ourselves as to its general plan and purpose.. it is a book for the bedside." Chapter 12. The Bedside Labyrinth.

 Eimear McBride on her fine novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and reading Ulysses when she was 25 —


Thursday, October 20, 2016

The James Joyce Quarterly

The James Joyce Quarterly was founded in 1963 at the University of Tulsa by Thomas F. Staley, who was the journal’s editor for its first twenty-five years. Beginning as a modest publication of forty pages, the JJQ grew in size and quality under Staley’s guidance and was soon unchallenged as the journal of record on the life and writings of James Joyce. More at: Home - James Joyce Quarterly

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

My hero: Eimear McBride on James Joyce

Joyce really set my universe on its end. Reading Ulysses changed everything I thought about language, and everything I understood about what a book could do. I was on a train on the way to a boring temp job when I was about 25; I got on at Tottenham, north London, and opened the first page of Ulysses. When I got off at Liverpool Street in central London, I don't think it is an exaggeration to say the entire course of my life had changed. Although he is viewed as terribly serious and cerebral, so much of the pleasure of reading Joyce is the fun he has and the risks he takes with language; there is nothing quite so enjoyable as the much-maligned Joycean pun. More at: My hero: Eimear McBride on James Joyce | Books | The Guardian

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Happy Birthday Flann O'Brien

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Ulysses Chapter 13 — Nausicaa


Thursday, September 29, 2016

Ulysses: cast of characters

Leopold Bloom is a protagonist and hero in Joyce's Ulysses. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. The character was inspired by James Joyce's close friend, Aron Ettore Schmitz (Italo Svevo), author of Zeno's Conscience.
Molly Bloom, the wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the Odyssey. The major difference between Molly and Penelope is that while Penelope is eternally faithful, Molly is not.

Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero[1] of his first, semi-autobiographical novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's Ulysses. Stephen Dedalus appears in Ulysses as the character who corresponds to Telemachus; less overtly, he embodies aspects of Hamlet. He is the protagonist of the first three chapters. Subsequently

Leopold Bloom is introduced, and Stephen's interactions with Bloom and his wife, Molly, form much of the final chapters' substance. More: List of Ulysses characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ulysses (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thursday, September 22, 2016

"The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring." Irish poet AE (George William Russell) to Stephen Dedalus. Dedalus expands on his Hamlet theory in conversation at the National Library.

Thursday, September 15, 2016

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