Ulysses (BBC Radio)

Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. Two ch

But he refuses her dying wishes: to kneel and pray for her. In this magnificent, highly accessible, part reading part dramatization—which includes the famous Molly Bloom soliloquy—the power and truth of Joyce’s vision is as potent as ever. The young poet Stephen has been recalled from Paris to Dublin to be at his mother’s deathbed. It is a huge, rich portrayal of human life. Now, holed up in his Martello tower outside the city walls, he has to suffer the taunts of Buck Mulligan by day and, by night, the vision of "her eyes, shaking out of death to shake and bend my soul." Timelessly evocative, Ulysses is far more than the story of Stephen Dedalus’ journey through Dublin. Ulysses stars Stephen Rea and Sinead Cusack, with an introduction by Seamus Heaney.8 CDs. 7 hrs 25 mins.

On Deck? VA Duck “Ulysses”: the literary reader’s favorite and the casual reader’s frustration. It is a difficult book to read - if the experts are right, the difficulty is worth it. Nonetheless, it remains difficult, and for that, any judgement based on the usual “good story - well told” criterion will be less than fair to this masterpiece.My first attempt ended 43 year. No much more to be said about Ulysses, but wouldn't use this Kindle version again Halley Faust With dozens of books and thousands of articles written about Ulysses, there's not much more to be said about the content from my naive eyes. I will say, however, that this version is a bit mis-labeled. I didn't find any annotations in it. Perhaps I could not find the right links/tabs/icons (and I searched), but nothing showed up in my iPad Kindle version. Further, the chapters are not even. Ulysses Cphe Deep breathOkay, here goes my review of Ulysses, a novel with a formidable reputation. This novel has intimidated me for longer than I care to own up to.I couldn't have got through this "mind expander" without a lot of help from my intrepid reading buddies on the Book Forum Refugees, the challenging Brain Pain and the Ulysses threads on the Western Canon group. Thank you one and all becaus