num_pages: 657
description: In the past, Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and even unreadable. None of these adjectives, 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 a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book.William Blake saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. 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.Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text.
language: English
title: Ulysses
titlecomplete: Ulysses
characters: Mina Kennedy, Mr Hornblower, Hugh "Blazes" Boylan, Mr Joseph M'Carthy Hynes, Leopold Bloom, Josie (Powell) Breen, Thomas "Tommy" Caffrey, Mrs Bella Cohen, Sara (Sally) Goulding, Simon Dedalus, Ned Lambert, Master Boardman, Mr Bello, Mrs. Dignam, Mr Cornelius Kelleher, Brian Cooper Tweedy, Barney Kiernan, John "Jacky" Caffrey, Alf Bergan, Fr. Bernard Vaughan, Zoe Higgins, Mr O’madden Burke, Mr. Garret Deasy, Mrs Marion Bloom, Jacob Halliday, Edy Boardman, Paddy Dignam, Buck Mulligan, Fr. John Conmee, Marion "Molly" Bloom, Mr Paddy Dignam, Tom Rochford, Stephen Daedalus, Gerty MacDowell, Mr. Power, John Eglinton, Haines, Davy Byrne, Walter Sexton, Mr Simon Dedalus, Mrs Josephine Breen, Mary Dedalus, Ann Hathaway, T. Lenehan, Father Conroy, Martin Cunningham, Mr Power, Malachi "Buck" Mulligan, Mr Thomas Kernan, Mr Leopold Bloom, Martha Clifford, Bantam Lyons, Gerald Ward A.D.C., John Henry Menton, Florry Talbot, Richard Crookback, Mina Purefoy, Patrick Aloysius Dignam, jnr., The Citizen, Mr Fox, Dilly, Katey, Boody, and Maggy Dedalus, Mother Grogan, Mr Garrett Deasy, Matthew Lenehan, James Fitzharris, Thomas W. Lyster, George Russell, Mrs Stoer, Charles Manners, Cissy Caffrey, Garrett Deasy, J. J. O'Molloy, Richie Goulding, Kevin Egan, William Humble, Earl of Dudley, Joseph Glynn, Tommy Caffrey, Jacky Caffrey, Terence O'Ryan, Bridget "Bridie" Kelly, J.J. O'Molloy, Bob Doran, Lydia Douce, Denis Breen, John Corley, Joseph P. Nannetti, Mr V. Lynch, Millie Bloom, D.B. Murphy, Stephen MacKenna, Boylan, Blazes Boylan, Episode Twelve's Nameless Narrator, Fanny Moody, Signor Maffei, Benjamin Dollard, Myles Crawford, Stephen Dedalus, Kitty Ricketts, Patrick Dignam
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Banned Books, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Irish Literature, Fiction, Ireland, Unfinished
ratings_count: 125127
places: Nighttown, Dublin, Glasnevin Cemetary, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Sandymount Strand, Dublin
awards: awardedAt: 1451635200000
name: Premio Euskadi de Literatura
category: Traduccion, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Deutscher Hörbuchpreis
category: Bestes Hörspiel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Национална награда „Христо Г. Данов“
category: Преводна художествена литература, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Premio Ánxel Casal da Edición
category: Premio Lois Tobío á Tradución (Galician), awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Premios Fervenzas Literarias
category: Traducción , awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Vintage