In 1984 was published the news-capturing scholarly work, the
"Critical and Synoptic Edition" of James Joyce's Ulysses, which, as
The New York Times said, corrected "almost 5,000 omissions,
transpositions and other errors included in previous editions of
the seminal 20th-century novel." That remarkable work of
scholarship, labor, and love, however, ran to three volumes in heft
and rang up at $200 in price. Here, then, comes the single-volume
trade-book edition of the same edited and restored text, placing
the great novel, in as close to its originally-intended form as can
be achieved, within reach of the common reader. Missing only is the
vast scholarly apparatus of the longer version, though this one
comes with a pleasantly helpful preface by Joyce biographer Richard
Ellmann and a methodologically explanatory afterward by Hans Walter
Gabler. A welcome event. Publication date, readers will note, is
Bloomsday. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Literature, as Joyce tells us through the character of Stephen Dedalus, 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, Ulysses has survived bowderlization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishingly wide-ranging allusions confirm its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition. Declan Kiberd says in his introduction Ulysses is 'An endlessly open book of utopian epiphanies. It holds a mirror up to the colonial capital that was Dublin on 16 June 1904, but it also offers redemptive glimpses of a future world which might be made over in terms of those utopian moments.'
This edition is the standard Random House/Bodley Head text that first appeared in 1960.
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