Resumo de Ulysses - James Joyce

Ulysses is the most important contributionthat has been made to fictional literature in the 20th century. It willimmortalize its author ... --This text refers to an out of print orunavailable edition of this titleNone ofthese adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this dayit remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celticlyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. And despite the exegeticalindustry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also acompulsively readable book. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might beEverything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw theuniverse in a grain of sand. Both characters add theirglorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. More sensible to spend themoney on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. It was serialized first in the Little Review in 1918 andpublished first in Paris in 1922, although its censorship for obscenity inAmerica and England were not lifted until the mid-1930s. It (very) looselyfollows the episodes of Ulysses from the Odyssey of Homer though in a reorderedform, with Stephen Dedalus representing Telemachus, Leopold Bloom Ulysses andMolly Bloom Penelope. It is, however, the only way actually to enjoy the novel.In 1906, as hefinished Dubliners, he considered appending a short story"Ulysses" to the end of the work. Instead he embarked on a fulllength Ulysses in 1914, the year of the publication of Dubliners and theserialization of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, his firstliterary successes. In the seven intervening years, a series of financial andlegal struggles, perhaps even more than its own literary merits warranted,assured the apotheosis of Ulysses into the Western literary canon.A master work ofmodernist literature, Ulysses used the structure of the Homeric Odysseyas a contrast to the lives of the Dublin working class. The entire 732-pagework takes place during Dublin's "dailiest day possible," Thursday,16 June 1904. The bleak lives of the Dublin working class formed a starkcontrast to the heroic Odyssey, and Joyce's frank realism was tooavant-garde for the cultural police of the day. Along with the appearanceof T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland in 1922, the publication of Ulyssessignaled the peak year of modernism, and became the icon of a new literary era.None ofthese adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this dayit remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes bothCeltic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. Both characters add theirglorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of afreelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call EarlyYeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a YoungMan. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something elseentirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is afigure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloomwalked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars,family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts andhands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Prayfor the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?"In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything.William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grainof sand. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Each of the 18 chapters of thenovel employs its own literary style. The use of classical mythology as aframework for his book and the near-obsessive focus on external detail in abook in which much of the significant action is happening inside the minds ofthe characters are others. Neither film really manages to convey the full scopeof Joyce's masterpiece, however, and each only covers the text selectively

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