Celebrate James Joyce!
Image thanks to Composition Gallery, 1388 McLendon Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307
http://www.compositiongallery.com/shows/4-Bloomsday-br-A-James-Joyce-Celebration
"Ulysses chronicles the passage through Dublin by its main character, Leopold Bloom, during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title alludes to the hero of Homer's Odyssey, and there are many parallels, both implicit and explicit, between the two works. June 16 is now celebrated by Joyce's fans worldwide as Bloomsday.
Ulysses totals 250,000 words from a vocabulary of 30,000 words. Divided into 18 'episodes,' as they are referred to in most scholarly circles, the book has been the subject of much controversy and scrutiny since its publication, ranging from early obscenity trials to protracted textual 'Joyce Wars.' Ulysses's groundbreaking stream-ofconsciousness technique, careful structuring, and highly experimental prose--full of puns, parodies, and allusions--as well as its rich characterizations and broad humour, have made the book perhaps the most highly regarded novel in the Modernist pantheon. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century."
from the Publisher's Preface,
Ulysses by James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, 2008, Forgotten Books (www.forgottenbooks.org).
Find out more:
Why It’s Bloomsday (And How You Can Celebrate), thanks to Time NewsFeed.
bloomsdaynyc.org
nytimes.com
latimes.com
www.huffingtonpost.com
Visit the lower level at Fogelson Library, at call number PR 6019 .O9. The library's collection includes more than sixty books of criticism and biography on James Joyce and his work, as well as several copies of the novel Ulysses.
