![]() ![]() The book, fallen, sprawled against the bulge of the orangekeyed chamberpot. I like James Joyce: I enjoyed Dubliners, his excellent choice of spectacles and his frankly odd erotic letters to Nora Barnacle (“Dirty little Fuckbird” is another fantastic Joyce-ism, filed away under ‘things I won’t say in front of my nan’). The novel by James Joyce encompasses events during a single calendar day in Dublin, 16 June, 1904 (now known as Bloomsday). Wonder if she pronounces that right: voglio. It seems Ulysses is a different experience for everyone: I’ve read it likened to sex (sometimes unpleasant, big pay off at the end), Jazz-fusion (an innovative of genre), and a boxing match (wanting to punch yourself in the face at page 46, probably). All of the action of the novel takes place in Dublin on a single day (June 16, 1904). He puts Bohemia on the seacoast and makes Ulysses quote Aristotle. have been amused, stimulated, charmed interested by the first 2 or 3 chapters-to the end of the Cemetery scene & then puzzled, bored, irritated, & disillusioned as by a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.” But then Nabokov loved it. Ulysses is constructed as a modern parallel to Homer’s Odyssey. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. Virginia Woolf thought Ulysses was – not in her words – bollocks, calling it – in her words– “an illiterate, underbred book” as she raged in her diaries about the pressure to finish it: “I. ![]()
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