Secretary Buttigieg has spoken of his admiration for Ulysses, and I assume he was turned onto Joyce by his father. Jospeh A. Buttigieg's A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective came out in 1987. Has anyone here read it? Any good?

Happened to the movie in early September, thought the Joyce reference in this movie was more than just a quote. Personally, thought the movie was kinda Joyce-istique. Do any of you guys who've seen the movie feel the same? What are your thoughts on the latest Pedro Almodovar movie that apparently quotes The Dead?

This whole section of the book is so elegantly written. The image of the girl in the water and the pictures of the seaside nearly brought me to tears the first time I read it.

Only James Joyce can make the switch from “vomiting profusely” to the most beautiful paragraph ever.

(The yellowish haze imagery reminds me of T.S Eliot’s The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock: “The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes…”

So I like James Joyce and I have read Ulysses and I really admire his stream technique since it enables us to see what his characters are thinking and I can't believe I found a Reddit community dedicated to one of my favorite authors of all time and I am so happy I have decided to truly out his stream of consciousness technique so don't judge me please if it is wrong or imperfect but anyway music is playing outside as I write this some amaliano from South Africa which my friends are dancing to as they prepare for the grad senior party on Friday whic just cost 500 leaches but my father can't afford which is surprising because he managed to send me to DKNSS which is the country's best secondary school which is also a boarding with food and everything but anyway the day is over and people are sleeping and i am supposed to be studying but here I am in the library practicing stream of consciousness on my friend Enoch's phone and I like Enoch nice friend met him in grade 8 and he helped me with some of his food and when he became captain let me use his phone and prefect cube for personal stuff but he says no procrastination and says I must study since the Exam final is after next week but I don't listen and have a wondering mind and I think about Reddit and James Joyce and Ulysses and Stephen Daedalus and the Blooms but I must study and stop writing this but how do I stop oh how do I stop so I can get serious and study win order to ensure a good future for myself and the girl I will marry in the future oh how do I stop can I stop here oh yes yes yes have i stopped?

Reading Ulysses for the first time, 9 chapters (er, episodes) in.

My only regret is having put off reading it for so long. I feel like it is a book made for book lovers. It’s hilarious, it’s sad, it’s also deep, philosophical…excited to continue!

I’ve read the Iliad and the Odyssey, Hamlet, and Portrait by Joyce, as far as relevant things to read before Ulysses go.

I was worried about how difficult it would be, I suppose. I’m happy to find out that I needn’t have been. My approach has been, read the episode without looking at any guide first, no stopping to look up annotations. I figured I’ll only ever read it for the first time, once. So I want to get the experience of reading it without any guide.

When I finish an episode, I look at the chapter for it in the book “James Joyce’s Odyssey: A Guide to the Dublin of Ulysses”. It’s not much of a guide as far as details on the episode, but more visually. Then, I skim Giffords annotations briefly for the episode. Then I start over with the next one!

Of the 9 I’ve read, my 3 favorites so far are Proteus, Lestrygonians, Scylla and Charybdis (but they’ve all been amazing).

Anyways, just was excited about it so far and wanted to share!

imma turn 18 next week and will get my second tattoo. i already have the last scene of the seventh seal by bergman on my forearm and i love ulysses since my first contact with it, but i cant find any art that can fit as a tattoo the same way the movie scene did. can yall help me with finding something?

We were in Dublin, so we went to visit Joyce's tower on the coast. It was an amazing experience, especially because of the volunteers who help the museum, they were so friendly and kind and passionate! We spent some hours with them, and I'd like to thank them all, really great, strongly recommended! 🔥

I'm planning to read ulysses. but im struggling in figuring out what's the best annotation there is to use to be able to understand ulysses, either for academic purposes, or just for "enjoyment" maybe even both.. Anyways I've heard the Oxford annotation is one of the best, Gifford’s Annotated too. Whether either of them was the answer to my question, or a completely different third book. I was hoping someone could help me out!

I've been having a lot of fun with the book and I told myself I was going to read the whole thing without external help ever since I read the first page out of curiosity. I love puzzles and deducing meaning from Joyce gives me the same kind of satisfaction. I've made it to the fourth episode by reading and rereading along with the Barry McGovern audiobook, but recently I feel like I've hit a stop.

I've more or less loosely deduced the plot of the two first episodes, but the third one just seems impenetrable. With no self control I keep peeping at synopses to give me any clues but I feel like I'm spoiling it for myself.

I want to understand the general story before continuing, otherwise I feel like I'm wasting the experience of reading it for the first time.

Is the plot even deducible and I'm wasting my time? Should I power through and just enjoy it on a purely linguistic level? Should read along with a guide? How did you get through it on your first reading?

I’ve tried searching an ebook of it on my phone and couldn’t find it. I’m in the hospital with my father who is dying and a memory of a section in this book keeps popping up in my mind. It was a section about how his father in old age was changing, and almost regressing if I remember correctly. Something like that. I know this is random but I’m just sitting in a hospital and it’s bugging me because I spent a while trying to find it and couldn’t.

If anyone can or tries to find it for me, I would be grateful. Thank you.

I.e. I’m assuming he read thousands of books, but do we know how many? Did he re-read, memorise, copy out passages, annotate? Or did he just blast through them, underlining what he’d need for later? I know he made various lists, but nothing much else

Thanks

I am looking for plot guides, esoteric blogs, and deep sources of enlightening information on Ulysses and Joyce. Thanks!

Hello everyone, recently I found about a certain French novelist or philosopher (I can't exactly remember) who wrote a book that somehow influenced Joyce and Joyce even remarked on it. If anyone here knows who I am talking about, It would be very appreciated

I was listening to Frank Delaney's Re:Joyce earlier and even he mentioned it.

1 - Molly's infidelity/Bloom's cuckoldry never comes up among the gossip-mongers in the several scenes where Bloom is absent but is the subject of discussion. Molly is well-established in the local music scene, and Boylan is a big enough deal around town that surely if she was known to sleep around with or without Mr Big Bad Boylan it would have surfaced as a topic of conversation.

The Nameless One guesses correctly, but he apparently keeps it to himself.

The couple of times when men ask Bloom about the impending concert tour, and Boylan's involvement with it, serve to highlight Bloom's precarious position, not to rub in that everyone knows about what would be happening that afternoon.

2 - Boylan is Molly's first extra-marital lover, and their tryst on Bloomsday would be the first time they would get together. Several generations of critics and readers were apparently so shocked by the frank sex talk in Penelope, and they took the famous list of her lovers in Ithaca at face value, to assume that she was a hardened adulteress. But as later critics who read Ulysses more carefully pointed out, this is not the case. Not only would Bloom's despair throughout the day not make sense if she was simply adding another notch to her bedpost, Bloom would almost certainly have thought about previous instances of her unfaithfulness at some point. This is all leaving aside the possibility that Bloom has a cuck kink and/or that he conspired to facilitate the tryst, which is a separate issue.

Boylan only first hit on Molly a couple of weeks prior to Bloomsday, and given his discretion in not disclosing who the "friend" on whose behalf he placed a horse racing bet for, nor his seeming aloof from the rest of Dublin male society, it doesn't seem like he'd have been blabbing about his upcoming conquest. Even the "worst man in Dublin" has his limits.

Wow wow wow. Ulysses is finished! What an absolute whirlwind. The last episode ‘Penelope’ is phenomenal. Definitely needs a re-read as a few episodes were incomprehensible to me such as ‘Nausicaa’ and ‘Circe.’ Other than that, such an incredible novel. Any commentary/advice on y’all’s re-reads?

In the "Circe" episode of Ulysses, the gramophone's garbled rendition of "Jerusalem" is cut short when "the disc rasps gratingly against the needle." Is Joyce referencing some kind of equipment malfunction that could have actually happened to a turn-of-the-century gramophone? In other words, could a gramophone record in 1904 just suddenly and spontaneously "rasp gratingly against the needle" while being played?

I'm curious about the position Joyce holds in contemporary Irish culture. I suspect his works are too advanced for most students, and likely are not taught until college. Yet he holds such an esteemed place in modern literature. As fans of his work, we can sometimes have a skewed opinion of the actual influence on the culture in general.

Are there any Irish folks who would care to comment?

Hi, guys, what books do you recommend that are similar to Joyce’s Ulysses?

i just bought it from amazon