![]() ![]() To compare “Ulysses” to a less grandiose work of art, Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen” is only four-operas long, and takes only four nights at the theater and about 15 hours to enjoy and it has a plot and character arcs. So I’ve read 72 percent of the chapters, but only 49 percent of the book. ![]() The novel has 18 chapters, totaling 783 pages. Today over lunch I finished Chapter 13 Nausicaä of “Ulysses” (1922) by James Joyce. As the cat said, “Mrkgnao!” a book review by Gregory Thursday, Jan. If you make it through - and I did not - you’ll be a changed person, with scars or marks on your mind & soul that cannot be easily erased. You’ll be lifted up to unknown heights of English language glory, soar with phrases that fly, and then tossed back down onto the rocks of invented words, jolting scene changes and incomprehensible passages. If you’re wearing a crash helmet - that is, if you’re contemporaneously reading a guidebook or explanatory text - you might survive with your head intact, but your body will break no matter what. Home › Uncategorized › “Ulysses” (1922) by James Joyce ![]()
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