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Ulysses (Paperback)
Loot Price: R552
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Ulysses (Paperback)
Series: Mint Editions
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Loot Price R552
Discovery Miles 5 520
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"I hold this book to be the most important expression which the
present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted,
and from which none of us can escape." T.S. Eliot Ulysses depicts a
day in Leopold Bloom's life, broken into episodes analogous to
Homer's Odyssey and related in rich, varied styles. Joyce's novel
is celebrated for its depth of learning, earthy humor, literary
allusions and piercing insight into the human heart. First
published in Paris in 1922 Ulysses was not published in the United
States until 1934. Immediately recognized as an extraordinary work
that both echoed the history of English literature and took it in
new, unheralded directions, Joyce's book was controversial. Its
widespread release was initially slowed by censors nitpicking a few
passages. The novel is challenging, in that it is an uncommon
reader who will perceive all that Joyce has put into his pages upon
first reading, but it is uniquely rewarding for anyone willing to
follow where the author leads. Far more than a learned exercise in
literary skill, Ulysses displays a sense of humor that ranges from
delicate to roguish as well as sequences of striking beauty and
emotion. Chief among the latter must be the novel's climactic
stream of consciousness step into the mind of the protagonist's
wife, Molly Bloom, whose open-hearted acceptance of life and love
is among the most memorable and moving passages in English
literature. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Ulysses is both modern and
readable.
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