Ulysses: A Facsimile of the First Edition Published in Paris in 1922 [THIS COPY BOUND UPSIDE DOWN AND IN VARIANT BINDING COLOR]
Language: English
Published by Orchises Press, 1998
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- New
Seller: Virginia Books & More, Spotsylvania, VA, U.S.A.Virginia Books & More
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This is an oddity, a single copy bound upside-down and in a variant cover color of this facsimile of the first edition originally published in Paris in 1922. Please see my attached photos. More photos and information available on request. I obtained this from the founder and owner of the publisher when he moved to another state.
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- Title
- Ulysses: A Facsimile of the First Edition Published in Paris in 1922 [THIS COPY BOUND UPSIDE DOWN AND IN VARIANT BINDING COLOR]
- Author
- Joyce, James
- Publisher
- Orchises Press
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0914061704
- ISBN 13
- 9780914061700
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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Review
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is "What happens?" In the case of Ulysses, the answer could be "Everything". William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of inforgettable Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, loiter, argue and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream- of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river-- we're privy to their thoughts, emotions and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordion-folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call "Early Yeats Lite"-- will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naïve curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus
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