Ulysses

Glad I finally forced myself to read it but never, never again. Who the hell ends a book with an eighty page sentence?

Yes I finished it yes and the months were going by and yes I could do it yes i did yes. the total destruction of style by style, disposing of so much modernism by making it all a hat trick, a goof, an exercise, a filigree. It is earnest and lewd and clever and tedious and sublime.

Essential. Getting a true version of Ulysses into print apparently hasn't happened yet. I am persuaded the three-volume Hans Walter Gabler critical edition (1984) and Gabler's one-volume Ulysses: The Corrected Text (1986) have made the problem worse. Still, I come across Joyceans ( I do not claim that term for myself) who are completely sold on the Gabler edition. Not me. Until the true...more

Essential. Getting a true version of Ulysses into print apparently hasn't happened yet. I am persuaded the three-volume Hans Walter Gabler critical edition (1984) and Gabler's one-volume Ulysses: The Corrected Text (1986) have made the problem worse. Still, I come across Joyceans ( I do not claim that term for myself) who are completely sold on the Gabler edition. Not me. Until the true version comes along, if ever, this is the best you can do. Just my opinion.   hide