Title: Ulysses
Description: Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book-although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States-and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession". None of these descriptions, 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 its own way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book.
Subjects: Married people, Male friendship, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Psychological fiction, Alienation (Social psychology), Textual Criticism, Molly Bloom (Fictitious character), Bloom, Molly (Personaje literario), Men, Facsimiles, Jewish men, Leopold Bloom (Fictitious character), English Manuscripts, Classic Literature, Domestic fiction, Proofs (Printing), Prohibited books, Bloom, Leopold (Personaje literario), Open Library Staff Picks, Immoral Literature, open_syllabus_project, Translations into Irish, City and town life, Law and legislation, Manuscripts, Hombres, Artists, Ficción, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Stream of consciousness, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Bloom, leopold (fictitious character), fiction, Bloom, molly (fictitious character), fiction, Dublin (ireland), fiction, Fiction, psychological, Dedalus, stephen (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, family life, Married people, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Joyce, james, 1882-1941, Photograph collections, Revolutions, Revolutionaries, Photography, Pictorial works, History, Artists, fiction, Fiction, general, English fiction, English literature, Ireland, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, erotica, general, Vie urbaine, Romans, nouvelles, Couples mariés, Hommes juifs, Artistes, Aliénation (Psychologie sociale), Amitié masculine, Littérature anglaise, Experimental fiction, Englisch, NOVELAS IRLANDESAS, Stream of consciousness fiction, Courant de conscience (Littérature), Belletristische Darstellung, Bloom, leopold (fictitious character), Bloom, leopold (fictitious character)--fiction, Bloom, molly (fictitious character), Bloom, molly (fictitious character)--fiction, Men--ireland--dublin--fiction, Bloom, leopold (fictional character), Bloom, leopold (fictional character)--fiction, Bloom, molly (fictional character), Bloom, molly (fictional character)--fiction, Men--dublin (ireland)--fiction, Pr6019.o9 u442 1993, 823/.912, Alienation (social psychology)--fiction, City and town life--fiction, Male friendship--fiction, Married people--fiction, Jewish men--fiction, Artists--fiction, Pr6019.o9 u4 1990, Book: sga joy, Psychology, Loss (Psychology), Irish literature, Irish authors, History and criticism, In literature, Epic literature, Jewish fiction, collection:Name, City and town life -- Fiction, Married people -- Fiction, Male friendship -- Fiction, Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction, Artists -- Fiction, Jewish men -- Fiction, Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction, Psychiatry, Blood pressure, Mental Disorders, Pornography
Places: Dublin (Ireland), Ireland, Dublin, United States, Irlanda, Dublín, Dublín (Irlanda)
People: James Joyce (1882-1941)
Time periods: June 16, 1904, Geschichte 1904