Ulysses: James Joyce (Original Version, 1922)

by James Joyce

Overview

Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. It is considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature.
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 (Latinised into Ulysses), and there are many parallels, both implicit and explicit, between the two works (e.g., the correspondences between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus).

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BN ID:	2940013764071
Publisher:	Maran State Books
Publication date:	01/09/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	816 KB

About the Author

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Séamus Seoighe; 2 February
1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely
considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th
century. He is best known for his landmark novels Ulysses (1922)
and Finnegans Wake (1939), the short story collection Dubliners
(1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man (1916). Although his adult life was largely spent
outside the country, Joyce's fictional universe is firmly rooted in
Dublin and provide the settings and much of the subject matter for
all his fiction. In particular, his tempestuous early relationship
with the Irish Roman Catholic Church is reflected through a similar
inner conflict in his recurrent alter ego Stephen Dedalus. As the
result of his minute attentiveness to a personal locale and his
self-imposed exile and influence throughout Europe, Joyce became
simultaneously one of the most cosmopolitan and one of the most
local of all the great English language writers.

Date of Birth:

February 2, 1882

Date of Death:

January 13, 1941

Place of Birth:

Dublin, Ireland

Place of Death:

Zurich, Switzerland

Education:

B.A., University College, Dublin, 1902

Website:

http://www.jamesjoyce.ie