There are lots of great resources out there, and every reader will find the one that best fits the type of reading experience that they are pursuing. There are quite a few guides to Ulysses out there, did you feel they needed replacing? I never fail to discover something new every time I read a page in the text. Ulysses is emotionally moving, intellectually invigorating, and super funny. I’ve yet to encounter another work of art that so successfully and thoroughly represents the human condition in the modern era. Why have you dedicated yourself to this book? Is it really something special? Lots of readers will enjoy hearing the poetry of the language out loud, but those listening should check in with the physical text every so often to get their bearings and pick up some of the purely textual elements. In terms of using an audiobook, the RTE performance of the text is really fun, but there are many other fantastic renderings out there.
It is a bit larger than the Vintage 1961 edition, so you have larger font and more space in the margins for notes. I have keyed my guidebook to the Gabler edition, which seems to be the most widely used edition in scholarly writing. That is really up to what works best for each individual reader.Īny specific edition that we should be reading? Is the audiobook a good way into it (I ask this because one person I interviewed said that might be a solution)?
Some readers might want to read the relevant Episode Guide in my book prior to reading the text itself others might want to read the novel cold and shore up their understanding by reading the explanations I offer in my book afterwards. So, perhaps you’ll want to carve out some time each week on Sunday afternoons or Wednesday evenings as your Ulysses time. If you try to read a page or two at a time, you’ll lose the thread and won’t get into the rhythm of the language or track the character development. In order to build momentum, I recommend reading at least one episode per week, and I think readers benefit from completing their reading of that episode within 24 hours of starting it.
#ULYSSES BOOK HOW TO#
We asked Patrick Hastings, author of The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses and a long-term teacher of Ulysses, for some tips about how to read Joyce’s modernist masterpiece.įor those of us who have tried to read James Joyce and failed-or haven’t yet tried but want to embark on our expedition well-prepared-can you explain how exactly to go about it?
#ULYSSES BOOK FULL#
The annotations cover the full range of information referenced in Ulysses : a vast array of literary allusions, such as Shakespeare, Aristotle, Dante, Aquinas, slang from various eras and areas, foreign language words and phrases, Hiberno-English expressions, Catholic ritual and theology, Irish histories, Theosophy, Freemasonry, cricket, astronomy, fashion, boxing, heraldry, the symbolism of tattoos, horse racing, advertising slogans, nursery rhymes, superstitions, music-hall songs, references to Dublin topography precise enough for a city directory, and much more besides. This volume, with over 12,000 individual annotations (and more than double the word count of Ulysses itself), explains these references and allusions in a clear and compact manner and is designed to be accessible to novices and scholars alike. James Joyce's Ulysses is filled with all sorts of references that can get in the way of many of its readers.
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