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Ulysses (1922)

by James Joyce

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James Joyce's novel Ulysses is said to be one of the most important works in Modernist literature. It details Leopold Bloom's passage through Dublin on an ordinary day: June 16, 1904. Causing controversy, obscenity trials and heated debates, Ulysses is a pioneering work that brims with puns, parodies, allusions, stream-of-consciousness writing and clever structuring. Modern Library ranked it as number one on its list of the twentieth century's 100 greatest English-language novels and Martin Amis called it one of the greatest novels ever written.

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  1. 321
    The Odyssey by Homer (_eskarina, chrisharpe)
    _eskarina: Joyce himself recommended Homer's epos to get better insight and understanding of Ulysses.
  2. 220
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (ZenMaintenance)
  3. 91
    Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (browner56)
    browner56: You will either love them both or hate them both, but you will probably need a reader's guide to get through either one--I know I did.
  4. 70
    The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil (roby72)
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    Moby Dick by Herman Melville (ateolf)
  6. 62
    The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (roby72)
  7. 40
    The New Bloomsday Book by Harry Blamires (bokai)
    bokai: The Bloomsday Book is a book length summary of James Joyce's Ulysses. It informs the reader of the general plot, of particular references in Ulysses to events in other books (most usually Dubliners)and includes a minimum of commentary, usually focusing on the religious aspects of the novel. For someone reading Ulysses with a limited knowledge of Joyce, Ireland, or Catholicism, this book may be the deciding factor in their enjoyment of the novel itself.… (more)
  8. 51
    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne (roby72)
  9. 41
    Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach (andejons)
    andejons: For those who want to read about how the book was published (and other details about Joyce's life in Paris)
  10. 41
    Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin (rrmmff2000)
    rrmmff2000: Both books of a man in a city, celebrating human life in all its variety, and revelling in language.
  11. 31
    To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway (ateolf)
  12. 20
    Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Othemts)
  13. 20
    The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin Birmingham (Cecrow)
    Cecrow: The (Non-fiction) story behind the novel's publication and its struggles with censorship.
  14. 10
    Omeros by Derek Walcott (TheLittlePhrase)
  15. 10
    J R by William Gaddis (chrisharpe)
  16. 10
    James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner by Alfonso Zapico (drasvola)
    drasvola: This book is a graphic narration of Joyce's life. It's in Spanish. Very well done and informative about Joyce's troubled relation with society, his work and family relationships.
  17. 10
    The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch (chrisharpe)
  18. 00
    Milkbottle H by Gil Orlovitz (absurdeist)
    absurdeist: Similar kind of disjointed interiority with multiple pov's.
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    Station Island by Seamus Heaney (kara.shamy)
  20. 00
    La Medusa by Vanessa Place (fuguette)
    fuguette: Place's work is a free-form experiment tracking the depraved, obsessive, unfiltered thoughts of her characters.

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I plowed through this once about 20 years ago and am now taking a second pass with my little book trio, who I'm sure will make this time around much more rewarding. ( )
  lschiff | Sep 24, 2023 |
Eccomi qui, davanti alla pagina bianca e con troppe idee per poterle organizzare in una recensione di senso compiuto. L'Ulisse è il libro più impegnativo che abbia letto nella mia vita: nessun altro romanzo mi aveva messo così tanto alla prova. Quindi, posso fin da subito dirvi che l'Ulisse non è libro per tutti: è per chi ha voglia di mettersi alla prova, per chi ha voglia di scervellarsi, per chi ha la costanza di leggere e rileggere. Se non siete tra costoro, non preoccupatevi: ci sono milioni di libri bellissimi che aspettano solo voi!

Però mi piacerebbe davvero scrivere una recensione che vi induca almeno a considerare l'idea di accostarvi a questo capolavoro. Se conoscete la – pessima – fama che l'Ulisse ha tra i lettori, è estremamente improbabile che riesca a stimolare la vostra curiosità. È innegabile quanto sudore neuronale si versi su questo libro (a meno che non siate dei piccoli geni, e in questo caso mi domando perché perdiate tempo a leggere questa recensione).

Ma la fatica paga ed è anche per questo che l'Ulisse è l'Everest dei lettori: dopo aver girato l'ultima pagina, capisci perché la letteratura si divida in a.J. e d.J. Avanti Joyce e Dopo Joyce. Quest'uomo è stato capace di prendere tutto ciò che pensavamo di sapere sulla letteratura – dagli stili agli archetipi – e di rivoltarli come un calzino. Ogni episodio dell'Ulisse ha una sua corrispondenza nell'Odissea, ma le somiglianze tra le due opere sembrano sempre più fragili quanto più proseguiamo nella lettura. Si ha più la sensazione che l'Odissea sia una della tante, possibili chiavi di lettura che possano far luce sulla complessità dell'Ulisse.

Altro riferimento importante è sicuramente Shakespeare, soprattutto l'Amleto, che ricorre molte volte nel romanzo, sia con citazioni sia con affinità dei personaggi con il principe danese shakespeariano. Ma troverete anche tantissima storia irlandese, Oscar Wilde, ballate popolari, Dante, Aristotele, Marx, Mozart, Virgilio e mille altri riferimenti ad altrettante opere, compresa la Bibbia.

Joyce pesca ovunque per creare il suo capolavoro, e non solo in termini contenutistici. Ogni episodio, infatti, è narrato con una tecnica stilistica diversa, spesso con intenti parodici. Questo fa sì che il libro imponga il suo ritmo al lettore. Non illudetevi di dettare legge all'Ulisse: vi sembrerà folle, ma è l'Ulisse che decide come e quando dovete leggerlo. Se vuole commuovervi, vi commuoverà. Se vuole divertirvi, vi divertirà. Se vuole annoiarvi (ebbene sì, Joyce era talmente geniale e consapevole del suo genio che era certo che, anche annoiando volutamente il suo lettore, questi sarebbe rimasto con lui fino alla fine), vi annoierà. Non è un sogno proibito da lettore? Un romanzo così vivo da pretendere la giusta attenzione del lettore. È come un gatto che reclama le coccole, ma poi vi guarda irritato se lo svegliate con una carezza mentre fa il suo pisolino.

Certo che è un gatto molto esigente. Seguire le peregrinazioni del flusso di coscienza è raramente una passeggiatina in campagna. Assomiglia più a una camminata su un ponte traballante sospeso su un lago di lava (avete presente quello in Shrek? Qualcosa del genere. Lo attraversi solo se un grande orco verde ti persuade/costringe a farlo). Diciamo che, dopo aver letto l'Ulisse, si diventa dolorosamente consapevoli di quanto i pensieri nella nostra mente vortichino selvaggi e indomabili. Nessuno pensa in maniera ordinata a meno di non farlo consapevolmente. E così Joyce li riporta pari, pari nel suo romanzo.

Il suo realismo nel riportare i pensieri è rigoroso e per noi lettori spesso confuso. Non sempre si capisce cosa sta pensando chi (e a volte neanche chi sta pensando cosa), ma vi assicuro che fa parte del fascino del romanzo. I primi del Novecento sono gli anni nei quali è nata la psicanalisi, che suscitava grande interesse. Joyce non ne era esente e le sue opere ne sono state influenzate.

Non poteva essere altrimenti, dato che lo scopo di Joyce nell'Ulisse era quello di rappresentare quel gran casino che è l'uomo moderno. E quale modo migliore di farlo se non attraverso i suoi stessi occhi? ( )
  kristi_test_02 | Jul 28, 2023 |
The last chapter took me a while. ( )
  grahzny | Jul 17, 2023 |
Some people claim Joyce's Ulysses and a literary masterpiece; a work of genius. Others claim it's the unreadable work of a madman. I won't go as far as to say it's unreadable. Parts of it were quite interesting. But unfortunately I did find large parts of it pretty much incomprehensible. ( )
  kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 |
I like this description: "this is a novel more discussed than read." I therefore refuse to discuss it, except to note that I did enjoy reading it. Quite a bit. ( )
  Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |
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For readers to whom books are an important means of learning about life, it stands preeminent above modern rivals as one of the most monumental works of the human intelligence.
added by Shortride | editTime (Jan 29, 1934)
 
During the one exciting day in Dublin, Joyce turns the mind of Bloom inside out. The history of Ireland comes to us in refracted rays. Through Stephen Dedalus we are introduced to Joyce's own profound spiritual uneasiness, his sense of loss, his hatred of the pragmatic commercial ethic, his need for the moorings and soundings of the medieval Catholic synthesis, his mental honesty that won't permit him to accept a religion, no matter what its appeal, so long as his intelligence tells him it is a figment of dream.
added by Shortride | editThe New York Times, John Chamberlain (pay site) (Jan 25, 1934)
 

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Joyce, Jamesprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Andersson, ErikTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Aubert, JacquesIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Berkel, ChristianNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bindervoet, ErikTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Brandt, MatthiasNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Claes, PaulTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Clever, EdithNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Deutschmann, HeikkoNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dewey, Kenneth FrancisIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ellmann, RichardPrefacesecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ernst, Morris L.Forewordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gabler, Hans WalterEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hamilton, RichardCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hülsmann, IngoNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Henkes, Robbert-JanTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Johnson, JeriEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Joyce, Stephen JamesPrefacesecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kenner, HughIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kiberd, DeclanIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Klaußner, BurghartNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Koch, WolframNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Lehto, LeeviTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mallafrè, JoaquimTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Matic, PeterNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Matthes, UlrichNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Melchior, ClausEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Milberg, AxelNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Noethen, UlrichNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Nys, MonTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Paladino, MimmoIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Rois, SophieNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Schüttauf, JörgNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Tellegen, ToonAfterwordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Thalbach, AnnaNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
The bard’s noserag! A new art colour for our Irish
poets: snotgreen. You can almost taste it, can’t you?
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James Joyce's novel Ulysses is said to be one of the most important works in Modernist literature. It details Leopold Bloom's passage through Dublin on an ordinary day: June 16, 1904. Causing controversy, obscenity trials and heated debates, Ulysses is a pioneering work that brims with puns, parodies, allusions, stream-of-consciousness writing and clever structuring. Modern Library ranked it as number one on its list of the twentieth century's 100 greatest English-language novels and Martin Amis called it one of the greatest novels ever written.

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