Time to tackle James Joyce Ulysses |
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- čas přidán 3. 06. 2024
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@bighardbooks770 Allen
Image in video: Photograph of a first edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, 1922, Geoffrey Barker, Creative Commons 4.0 via Wikimedia
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Beautiful collection of books, Roy! I’m glad to be on this journey with you!
Same history with Ulysses. I finally read it in jail. I would suggest to anyone interested in either Ulysses or Proust read "The Universe of Death" by Henry Miller.
Thanks, I'll check it out - not read Miller, despite P J Farmer talking him up in his Doc Savage book (my formative reading)
Loving the giggles in the background. Hope you enjoy and finally get Ulysses read.
Thanks, it will be fun
Thanks for the mention, Roy. Im very pleased w our little _Ulysses_ group; indeed, y'all are ahead of me! Great Poldy figure, too! (I want one!) 🇮🇪 Im really enjoying the new essays upon every episode in Flynn's Centenary edition.
It's a great book - hooray for Flynny
The Flynn edition is gorgeous. Glad to have on board this reading journey.
Thanks for initiating a fabulous adventure!
Whether its an ascent of Mount Ulysses or romp through dear dirty Dublin via the beautifully but uncensored minds of Stephen and the Blooms this looks like so much fun. I'm looking forward to everything you post on this one!
Cheers Thomas, it will be a splendid ride
Goodness, you're certainly loaded for bear! Just don't forget to read the original book:)
It's in there somewhere...
There's been a cottage industry of Joyce-related resources since ULYSSES first was published, I think. I thought it had died down a bit with the deaths of the Old Guard Scholars like Hugh Kenner and Guy Davenport and Harold Bloom, but from your stack of books I'd say Joyce still supports lots of publishing projects.
Heck, Roy, just set aside 24 hours on June 16 (Bloomsday) and read the whole thing, cover to cover!
That would be great - or maybe do the audiobook from 8am
This does not seem a very.. portable reading experience 🧐
How exciting! Joyce's Ulysses is quite possibly my favorite book. I wish I'd known there was going to be a read-along, I would've joined in. I spent this past January re-reading Ulysses, along with Dubliners and Portrait, which I do every few years. (Yes, Finnegans Wake, too; it is readable, and don't let anyone convince you otherwise! )
You've already read some of Ulysses before -- you're not new to it --plus you haven't asked for any advice. Please forgive me for being unable to quiet that part of my brain that always makes me want to leap in with advice, nonetheless. I would gently suggest that you not allow too much of the supplemental material into your experience, at least for your first full read. Let Joyce's language fully work its magic for you, mostly unaided. (If you feel as if you really need a guide while reading, I can point you toward a surprisingly helpful, free, brief summary of each of the book's episodes that, once read quickly, will allow you to read Ulysses with a genuine depth, but without disrupting the flow of Joyce's language. There, I've gone and done it: offered advice where it wasn't asked for. I apologize.)
I hope you really enjoy this reading experience!
Any advice is welcome as far as I'm concerned. I've often wondered whether reading it alongside an audio version might help get through any confusions (I've got the Naxos audiobook). Do you think that's a reasonable approach?
Wise words - I'll try and be sparing with the ancillary reads and keep them for dessert
@parlabaneisback I think audio is a great idea - Jim Norton is a great reader (I think it's him) - I have listened to all of Finnegans Wake but only read parts of it so far
@@parlabaneisback With a certain amount of almost embarrassment I have to say my attitude toward audio books is an old one and definitely at odds with what seems to be the majority opinion of them. My thinking has been that any intermediate step between the author's mind and the reader's (such as an audio book narrator) disturbs the intended impact. Having said that, recently I've heard some very good recordings of different works of poetry that I can imagine would help someone who was perhaps struggling in reading them. Choosing to read along with some of them, myself, ended up being a more pleasant experience than I had imagined.
So, yes, I can't see any harm in reading along with the Naxos. I'd still recommend everyone take the opportunity to read Joyce without an intermediary, though. Allow his language to have its impact on you directly.
Any way you choose to approach it, I hope you have a great experience reading this! I'd be interested to hear how it's going.
@@Greg_Nicklin Thanks, I may embark on a solo voyage but summon audio assistance if (when) I start to founder.