100 hundred years of Bloom
February 2, 2022 3:29 AM Subscribe
Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James Joyce To celebrate one hundred years since Sylvia Beach, publisher and bookseller, published James Joyce’s ULYSSES, Hay Festival is partnering the iconic bookshop Shakespeare and Company, Paris, on a global read-along of the complete text to be released as a free podcast between the 100th anniversary of the publication on 2 February 2022 and Bloomsday on 16 June 2022.
If you are planning to read the novel for the first time you can do no better than use ulyssesguide.com as your guide. The author of this website has also just published it as a book.
Stately plump buck mulligan is blown away that it's the 100 year anniversary, yes yes yes i say yes
posted by dis_integration at 5:52 AM on February 2, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by dis_integration at 5:52 AM on February 2, 2022 [3 favorites]
There's a nice article in the Washington Post by the Irish ambassador to the US. He also happens to have written a book about Ulysses. In the article, he makes the case that Ulysses is not just the great Irish novel but the great European novel.
Leopold Bloom, the anti-nationalist star of ‘Ulysses,’ is an ambassador for our day
posted by vacapinta at 7:06 AM on February 2, 2022 [1 favorite]
Leopold Bloom, the anti-nationalist star of ‘Ulysses,’ is an ambassador for our day
posted by vacapinta at 7:06 AM on February 2, 2022 [1 favorite]
I was looking for an excuse to read Ulysses again. thanks.
posted by OHenryPacey at 7:31 AM on February 2, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by OHenryPacey at 7:31 AM on February 2, 2022 [1 favorite]
Ulysses And Us by Declan Kiberd is a great book about it.
posted by kersplunk at 7:38 AM on February 2, 2022
posted by kersplunk at 7:38 AM on February 2, 2022
Nice! The website also has a good list of other Ulysses' guides.
posted by storybored at 1:04 PM on February 2, 2022
posted by storybored at 1:04 PM on February 2, 2022
Happy 100 years! Very excited for this read-through podcast.
I found ulyssesguide.com incredibly helpful in making it through the book. Glad to see it on here!
posted by caseyblu at 1:07 PM on February 2, 2022
I found ulyssesguide.com incredibly helpful in making it through the book. Glad to see it on here!
posted by caseyblu at 1:07 PM on February 2, 2022
Oh, and no Ulysses thread would be complete without mentioning the masterful dramatization by the Irish national radio broadcaster, RTE. Available for free here.
Listening to the audiobook is a fine way to help with your reading.
posted by storybored at 1:14 PM on February 2, 2022 [2 favorites]
Listening to the audiobook is a fine way to help with your reading.
posted by storybored at 1:14 PM on February 2, 2022 [2 favorites]
Are they taking submissions? Would they take my party piece where I do the Molly Bloom speech in my best Foghorn Leghorn impression?
Yes, I say, Yes! And what if I put a rose in my hair *slaps you on the back* - I say a rose, boy. Like the Andalusian girls use. Keep up, son!
posted by bartleby at 8:00 PM on February 2, 2022 [2 favorites]
Yes, I say, Yes! And what if I put a rose in my hair *slaps you on the back* - I say a rose, boy. Like the Andalusian girls use. Keep up, son!
posted by bartleby at 8:00 PM on February 2, 2022 [2 favorites]
Oh, and no Ulysses thread would be complete without mentioning the masterful dramatization by the Irish national radio broadcaster, RTE. Available for free here.
I just want to chime back in to say how incredible that dramatization is. I won't stop anybody from doing Ulysses readings, it is part of the tradition, but that RTE broadcast is unbeatable.
I've been listening to it and am now on Chapter 7. The voices, the sound effects, make the text so much clearer. A big problem people have reading Ulysses is trying to figure out - who is talking?? - as the narration slips into and out of character's inner thoughts. This reading at least proposes a solution and makes the text so accessible and even more enjoyable.
It is also up on RTE right now.
posted by vacapinta at 1:44 AM on February 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
I just want to chime back in to say how incredible that dramatization is. I won't stop anybody from doing Ulysses readings, it is part of the tradition, but that RTE broadcast is unbeatable.
I've been listening to it and am now on Chapter 7. The voices, the sound effects, make the text so much clearer. A big problem people have reading Ulysses is trying to figure out - who is talking?? - as the narration slips into and out of character's inner thoughts. This reading at least proposes a solution and makes the text so accessible and even more enjoyable.
It is also up on RTE right now.
posted by vacapinta at 1:44 AM on February 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
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