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"It's
a miserable ritual, a magical procedure...a homunculus
of the consciousness of the new world — our world
passed away and a new world has arisen." Carl
Jung on Ulysses |
About
Bloomsday
James Joyce's most famous work, Ulysses, tells the
story of one day in the life of Leopold Bloom as he travels
the streets of Dublin. (Bloom's wanderings are compared to
those of mythical hero Ulysses — hence the book's title.)
Celebrated in communities around the world, Bloomsday commemorates
the anniversary of that day, June 16th, 1904. Bloomsday 2004
marks the 100th anniversary of Leopold Bloom's mythic journey.
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Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes.: A Celebration of James Joyce, Ulysses, and 100 Years
of Bloomsday
by Nola Tully |
Ulysses
by James Joyce
Vintage
Trade Paper
Modern
Library Hardcover
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About Ulysses
Though Ulysses is now considered the greatest novel
of the twentieth century, it was not easy to find a publisher
in America willing to take it on. When Jane Jeap and Margaret
Anderson started printing extracts from the book in their literary
magazine the Little Review in 1918, they were arrested
and charged with publishing obscenity. They were fined $100,
and even the New York Times expressed satisfaction
with their conviction. Ulysses was not published in
book form until 1922, when another American woman, Sylvia Beach,
published it in Paris through her legendary Shakespeare & Company. Ulysses was
not available legally in any English-speaking country until
1934, when Random House successfully defended Joyce against
obscenity charges and published it in the Modern Library.
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About
James Joyce
James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, Dublin.
One of ten children, he was educated at Jesuit schools and
at University College, Dublin. A brilliant student of languages,
Joyce once wrote an admiring letter in Norwegian to Henrik
Ibsen. He went to Paris for a year in 1902, where he discovered
the novel Les Lauriers Sont Coupes by Edouard Dujardin,
whose stream-of-consciousness technique he later credited with
influencing his own work. Joyce was to modern literature what
Picasso was to modern art: he scrambled up the old formulas
and set the table for the 20th century.
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Biographies
James
Joyce
by
Edna O'Brien
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Read
an excerpt
Ulysses by
James Joyce
 tately,
plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl
of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow
dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him
by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
— Introibo ad altare Dei.
Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called
up coarsely:
— Come up, Kinch. Come up, you fearful jesuit.
Solemnly he came forward and mounted the round gunrest. He
faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding
country and the awaking mountains. Then, catching sight of
Stephen Dedalus, he bent towards him and made rapid crosses
in the air, gurgling in his throat and shaking his head.
Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on
the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the shaking
gurgling face that blessed him, equine in its length, and
at the light untonsured hair, grained and hued like pale
oak.
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