Ulysses
About this book
Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book-although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States-and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession". None of these descriptions, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in its own way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book.
Subjects
- alienation (social psychology)
- artists
- artists, fiction
- bloom, leopold (fictitious character), fiction
- bloom, leopold (personaje literario)
- bloom, molly (fictitious character), fiction
- bloom, molly (personaje literario)
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- city and town life
- classic literature
- dedalus, stephen (fictitious character), fiction
- domestic fiction
- dublin (ireland), fiction
- english fiction
- english manuscripts
- facsimiles
- ficción
- fiction
- fiction, family life
- fiction, general
- fiction, psychological
- friendship, fiction
- historical fiction
- history
- hombres
- immoral literature
- jewish men
- joyce, james, 1882-1941
- law and legislation
- leopold bloom (fictitious character)
- long now manual for civilization
- male friendship
- manuscripts
- married people
- married people, fiction
- men
- molly bloom (fictitious character)
- open library staff picks
- open_syllabus_project
- photograph collections
- photography
- pictorial works
- prohibited books
- proofs (printing)
- psychological fiction
- revolutionaries
- revolutions
- stream of consciousness
- textual criticism
- translations into irish