![]() What does Jim Norton bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book? Once you have a grounding you really appreciate the full force of its brilliance.īloom: an outsider, cuckold and under-dog, but persistent and dogged, he wins through in the end. It helped that I'd read this book previously and had done some study on how it has been interpreted. Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? One of the best audiobooks I’ve ever listened to. ![]() This is a monumental achievement in audiobook recording that cuts no corners, takes all the time it needs in the right places, and uses technology and vision to create an unforgettable listening experience. ![]() Narrated by Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan, it is an unabridged recording (27 hours and 21 minutes) that has not only been expertly read, it’s actually recorded and mixed wonderfully, and it’s amongst the best audiobooks I’ve ever encountered. His words float, soar and swerve, and I think we are incredibly lucky to have an audiobook of the work that is without equal. There is something about Joyce’s language and his way of expressing things that lends beautifully to performance. I like reading "Ulysses", but equally I love listening to it. When it comes to Joyce’s great work, a colossus among the colossals, it’s quite impossible to write about the reading experience succintly, to the point, and well. Both are needed, courage and joy, since the most challenging works of literature should be enjoyable in their difficulty. ![]() "Grant me, Lord, the courage and the joy / I need to scale the summit of this day”, wrote Jorge Luis Borges of "Ulysses" in one of his sonnets. It is entertaining, immediate, funny, and rich in classical, philosophical, and musical allusion. In the hands of Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan, experienced and stimulating Joycean readers, and carefully directed by Roger Marsh, Ulysses becomes accessible as never before. While Bloom's passionate wife, Molly, conducts yet another illicit liasion (with her concert manager), Bloom finds himself getting into arguments with drunken nationalists and wild carousing with excitable medical students, before rescuing Stephen Dedalus from a brawl and returning with him to his own basement kitchen. Both begin a normal day, and both set off on a journey around the streets of Dublin, which eventually brings them into contact with one another. It tells the story of one day in Dublin, June 16th 1904, largely through the eyes of Stephen Dedalus (Joyce's alter ego from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and Leopold Bloom, an advertising salesman. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century. Since publication, the book attracted controversy and scrutiny, ranging from early obscenity trials to protracted textual "Joyce Wars." Ulysses' stream-of-consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental prose-full of puns, parodies, and allusions, as well as its rich characterisations and broad humour, made the book a highly regarded novel in the Modernist pantheon. Ulysses contains approximately 265,000 words from a lexicon of 30,030 words (including proper names, plurals and various verb tenses), divided into eighteen episodes. Joyce fans worldwide now celebrate 16 June as Bloomsday. The title alludes to Odysseus (Latinised into Ulysses), the hero of Homer's Odyssey, and establishes a series of parallels between characters and events in Homer's poem and Joyce's novel (e.g., the correspondences between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus). Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904 (the day of Joyce's first date with his future wife, Nora Barnacle). One of the most important works of Modernist literature, it has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce, first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris.
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