Salman Rushdie recaps 'Ulysses' in 20 seconds
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- Salman Rushdie gives Daniel Sandström a brief summary of James Joyce's 'Ulysses'.
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Everyone here... See this full interview. He is not disparaging Ulysses but in fact praising Joyce.
Rushdie has on innumerable occasions categorically mentioned that Ulysses is his favourite book and Joyce was a genius.
Ulysses is not about what happens on one day in Dublin. It a snapshot of humanity from Joyce's vantage point.
I love how the comments don't seem to get that Rushdie is using a reductive summery of the plot for humor. Instead they insult him, proud of their own stupidity and surface level thinking. I would assume they never read Joyce.
Especially since Rushdie has repeatedly stated across the years that he loves Ulysses, and that Joyce has been one of his greatest literary influences. Here he is joking in an endearing way, in order to show that it is a great novel despite having a simple story, thus reinforcing Joyce's original intention of revealing that "the ordinary is the extraordinary"
I might drop down sometime if I'm looking for an expert on surface-level thinking.
I'll bring pancakes.
Oh boy, we have a real intellectual here.
No. Rushdie is making the point that “plot” is overrated and many great works of literature have little to no plot, particularly modernist literature, and particularly Ulysses.
(I would also put Moby Dick in this category as well.)
@@graham6132 Many readers struggle with Ulysses, not because it has little to no plot - rather because it has too much plot. So many things happen that it's difficult to keep track of them all.
To clarify for the comment section: Rushdie is one of the greatest novelists since Joyce, and Ulysses is probably the single book that most influenced his style. He's joking about the book consciously rejecting traditional plot, that what is widely considered the greatest English novel is one in which 'nothing happens'.
😂👌🔥
not englidh
@@moonrocks9549 english language, not english nationality.
How dare you say it's an English novel... You're lucky we don't chop your hands off at the wrist for such blasphemy
@@nondescriptcat5620 then please correct your message to written in English or something to that effect. It really sounds wrong.
It is complicated even if in a few words we think of a story. There is no beginning, no middle, and no end. Just the way our lives are, we come to a life that already is and we go without any end in it by us.
Modernism
That is so beautifully put, thank you
Just saved myself 20 hours of reading.
It would take a lot longer than that.
@@Tolstoy111it says the average reading time is 13 hours I looked it up on the internet
@@Tolstoy111it’s boring though a character in the book eats nasty gross food and that cat needs to be taken away from him doesn’t even feed it properly anyway I was like 😡also I’m on page 60 it has like 544 I read comments or an article about they read 40 pages and needed a nap they said by page 46 they wanted to punch themselves but drastic but okay
@@MelB868yeah but that's 13 hours over the course of like 4 months 😂
Great summary! Then also take into account that Joyce was extremely near sighted and worked as an operator in a cinema theatre, looking all night at a far away flickering screen without actually seeing anything. Put this together with the excellent summary and you’ve got your Ullyses explained.
he forgot the part where Stephen wipes his booger on a rock
😂😂😂
I've always found so many similarities between the tone, the irreverence and the humor of Ulysses and The Satanic Verses. It's obvious that Salman is a huge fan of James Joyce.
Nothing negative about this, if you’ve read Rushdie Ulysses is a big influence on him and he’s just having a laugh. Funny little video.
No mention of fired kidneys, defecating, and farts? What a fail summary.
The most beautifully rendered fart in all of English literature.
iTs NoT pReTeTiOuS iT hAs A fArT jOkE
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Man crosses Dublin trying in vain to avoid a pub.
hence so relatable
If you can't explain it simply you don't know it well enough
And sometimes if you can you’ve missed the point
Sold.
This is all i need to know about a book written less to delight the average reader than to befuddle the trained scholar. Thanks Rushdie 🤝
(And for anyone considering reading this, just go with Proust instead)
Every guy ever: i read books. I read art of war, and 50 laws of power
Every girl ever: i read books, i read the secret, and 50 shades of grey
"Not so old, not so millionaire can't sleep, goes for a walk, eats tea and biscuits, remembers his whole life, goes to a party, stumbles, maybe tries to pick up an underage girl, the end"
Hm. This one is harder to guess than I thought. Proust?
@@allisonlee7178 Indeed!
Yeah he does like his tea
ok... there you have it!
I hope he was kidding. Bloom wasn't drinking so he didn't get 'more drunk' nor was pimping his wife on his mind.
Bloom drinks some wine during the day, but you are right, he is not notably drunk at any point. Unlike Stephen, who drinks all day and hardly eats a thing.
The possibility of Molly and Stephen having sex does cross Bloom's mind during the last few episodes, but I'm not sure whether 'pimping' is a suitable description.
Yes, he also pours his drink into another guys glass when he visits the hospital. With the quality of water, it's going to be tea which is boiled or wine or some other prepared beverage. You are correct---pimping is certainly nowhere near the mark. Glad you commented. Would you consider looking at Chris Reich who is making Ulysses vids? You opinion valued.
@@bizphyz3461 nothing to do with the quality of the water.
@@bizphyz3461 thanks for the suggestion
Well that saved me some time!
Stephan was there to to give Bloom insight to dead son
Pass.
If you didn't understand this joke, you didn't read it, or worse: you read it and didn't enjoy it.
Maybe?
This vid made me laugh. I guess you could technically do this with any book. For example, Hemingway's 'The Old Man & the sea'. Old guys catches big fish but returns to shore with very little of it.
Mind you, it truly was a boring read, so the synopsis is more entertaining.
Didnt enjoy Ulysses.Tough read.Couldnt get a clear image of Bloom or even Molly.
What a coincidence! I just read that book today. And yes, it was truly a boring read.
@@hahaha9540 😅😅 yep, absolutely awful! 😅😅
@@hahaha9540yeah I’m on page 60 it is boring and so far it managed to gross me out and made me mad like could we get that cat taken away and give it some one who will give it some meat uhh
Having said that,it's obviously just a piece of the interview.Put out there to pull the leg.He,I'm sure has been greatly influenced by JJ.😂🤣😅😆A pint of Guinness in a Dublin Pub would soon loosen his tongue!!!
What about the funeral? What about the gorgonzola sandwich?
what about the potato he have?
So I don't need to read it. Could Rushdie do the same for some of his novels so I don't have to read them.
Bloom was more Irish than Jewish
Read theBOOK,then comment.
20 seconds is way too long to describe this novel. Typical of Rushdie to over elaborate.
Terribly Tiny Tale.
There are people who have a hunger for knowledge. Others have a hunger for words. Most books offer you words. Life is short. I don't have time for words.
Lal the ral the ra
Rushdie known for "skin in the game" oh know that was Nassim Taleb...
Why is the current generation so much obsessed with queers and homosexuality?
They take out such inferences from almost every literary works
Bloom is not Jewish. He has been baptised a Christian twice, once as a Protestant, the second time as a Catholic. Poor from Rushdie who cannot have read the Ithaca episode.
Bloom is culturally Jewish but not by matrilineal descent.
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I think, Rushdie does not like Ulysses. Silly summary. Jealous maybe?
He was being ironic. Rushdie has repeatedly said that Ulysses is the book that has influenced him the most, and the book that he dips into every few months.
No one actually likes ulysses, come on now😂 maybe the masochists who love being deliberately flummoxed by literature but that's it
Funny - but left out Molly's wonderful soliloquy!
Not quite accurate ...
He should try reading it. 'Fabled by the daughters of memory. And yet it was in some way if not as memory fabled it'.
It's his favourite book, this is an obvious joke. Rushdie claims to revisit Ulysses every few years for inspiration.
sordid and pointless unless you are phobia ridden
so said the author no one has or will ever read.
He's had plenty of best sellers.
If his adult novels are too much for you, he's written several children's books. _Haroun and the Sea of Stories_ is really good. His memoir _Joseph Anton_ is very good, too.
Did he even read "Ulysses"? Bloom does not get drunk in nighttown, in fact he acts as guardian and apologist for Stephen blaming his erratic behavior on absinthe - a habit he's brought back recently from Paris. The only alcohol Bloom consumes all day is a glass of wine I believe for lunch then later some spiced Irish cider at the saloon at the bar and restaurant of the Ormond Hotel over an early dinner. He in fact argues w/ the Citizen later over alcohol being a scourge of Ireland. Bloom is as sober as they come in the novel. Secondly, he's followed Stephen to the whorehouse, he is not there for himself, which he explains to Corny Kelleher. The notion he is trying to "pimp out his wife" by showing Stephen the pic of Molly is pure nonsense, he's advising that Stephen grow up, give up whores and bad company, and settle down. As Kelleher noted to Bloom earlier re the prostitutes: "Thanks be to God we have it in the house, what, eh, do you follow me? Hah, hah, hah!"
The novel is basically unreadable. Not a masterwork.
Man with mirrored spectacles thinks all the world is ugly.
Correct, but inaccurate.
Joyce is fun to read, Rushdie is boring.
No where is the fun part?
Only lovers of crass, lowbrow Irish humor appreciate Joyce because here's an actual highbrow figure they can use to justify their interests
Interesting. I thought Mr. Rushdie was more intellectual than he admits to in this interview.
Idiotic knight tries to summarize Ulysses because he once tried to write something akin to it, failed and married four times, got a fatwa to his name and still whined to his third wife about his inability to win a Nobel. That, my friend, summarizes Mr Rushdie for me.
Rushdie was one of the founders of 'click bait'
someone's crabby tonight
you seem to misunderstand that nothing about this summary of Ulysses is negative or disparaging, and in fact is a rather humorous dedication to a novel that Rushdie is a big fan of.
Man why do internet commenters always have a giant burning stick of coal up their arses that make them so butthurt about every fucking thing like jesus
Tennyson wrote Ulysses 188 years ago. Nobody will remember Rushdi in 50 years.
Tennyson? Are you okay? Ulysses was written by Joyce, and published in 1922, merely 100 years ago, not 188.
@@danielashjazadeh6165 well, there are 3 Ulysses. One by Alfred Lord Tennyson, one by DH Lawrence and one by James Joyce and the most popular is The James Joyce one
@@27aritrasinhaxb63 The one being referenced by rushdie is obviously the one written by Joyce, as neither Tennyson not lawrence had any affinity or literary relation to Dublin.
@@danielashjazadeh6165it said took place in 1904 on June 16
Ridiculous.
"Gets even more drunk..." Rubbish!
Bullshit explanation.Without Joyce he would'nt have had the freedom to write what he himself has written.Joyce opened every door imaginable for those who came after him.Beckett too.
You are talking rubbish.
Rushdie bio: humdrum writer, better known for scandalizing Muslims..
if that's your critique about Rushdie, please avoid reading anything else. not even a YA novel. you aren't eligible for reading. stick to gaming.
if you're déad, thanks for saving us useful oxygen.