I’ve been writing about James Joyce recently. Like many Joyce fans, I have my favorites between Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses, but I’ve never made a serious attempt to read Finnegan’s Wake. There … Continue reading
I’ve been continuing to watch videos about James Joyce and Ulysses. Some have been interesting, some have been misguided, some I haven’t bothered to finish, and some short ones I haven’t even started — a fifteen-minute video on why I … Continue reading
Two more points on Ulysses by James Joyce (plus one added later). 1) I did go to see the exhibition “One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s Ulysses” at the Morgan Library and Museum. It was really good. It was all … Continue reading
Following up on my last post, I found this very interesting video: “Great Big Book Club – James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’.” The presentation, by Joyce scholar Coílín Owens, is very good, but one of the questions particularly caught my attention. One … Continue reading
Well, as I (semi-)predicted a few posts ago, I’m dipping into Ulysses again. 1) There’s what looks like a very interesting exhibition about the book’s 100th anniversary at The Morgan Library. I plan to go. 2) I studied James … Continue reading