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Ulysses and Us - The Art of Everyday Living (Paperback, Main)
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Ulysses and Us - The Art of Everyday Living (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R317
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In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses
offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the
dreadful pressures of the modern world. As much a guide to
contemporary life as it is virtuoso work of literary criticism,
Ulysses and Us offers revolutionary insights to the scholar and the
first-time reader alike. Leopold Bloom, the half-Jewish Irishman
who is the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses, teaches the young Stephen
Dedalus (modelled on Joyce himself) how he can grow and mature as
an artist and an adult human being. Bloom has learned to live with
contradictions, with anxiety and sexual jealousy, and with the
rudeness and racism of the people he encounters in the city
streets, and in his apparently banal way sees deeper than any of
them. He embodies an intensely ordinary kind of wisdom, Kiberd
argues, and in this way offers us a model for living well, in the
tradition of the literature upon which Joyce drew in writing
Ulysses, such as Homer, Dante and the Bible. 'Declan Kiberd's
brilliantly informed and highly entertaining advocacy liberates
Joyce's greatest book from the dungeon of unreadable masterpieces.'
Joseph O'Connor
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