James
Joyce’s Ulysses occupies a very significant place in the history
of English literature. The novel is one of the greatest chef d’oeuvres of
modernist literature. The textual history of Ulysses was first published on 2 February 1922.
But, Ulysses
is also sometimes seen as so experimental that it is completely
unreadable.
Ulysses began as a discarded chapter from Joyce's first
collection, Dubliners (1914)
and for all its length it retains the fierce intimacy of a great short story.
The action of the novel, famously, occurs on a single day, 16 June 1904,
coincidentally the date of Joyce's first outing with Nora Barnacle, later his
beloved wife. On "Bloomsday", the reader follows Stephen Dedalus (the
protagonist of A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man), Leopold Bloom, a part-Jewish advertising
canvasser, and his wife Molly.
The
connection to The Odyssey
is informal (Bloom is Odysseus, Stephen matches Telemachus and Molly is
Penelope) and the chapters roughly correspond to episodes in Homer
("Calypso", "Nausicaa", "Oxen of the Sun", etc.).
Joyce himself revered the book that had inspired his masterpiece.
Ulysses is often said to be
"difficult", but really it is not. Joyce's word-play, rivalling
Shakespeare, whose teeming vocabulary he surpasses, is intoxicating, and deeply
Irish. One of the best ways to encounter the novel is through any good audio-book
recording. As Stephen Dedalus remarks: "Every life is many days, day after
day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young
men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves."
Ulysses is endlessly inventive, and
labyrinthine in its construction. The novel is both a mythical adventure of the
everyday and a stunning portrait of internal psychological processes--rendered
through high art. Brilliant and sparkling, the novel is difficult to read, but
offers rewards tenfold the effort and attention that willing readers give it.
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