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Advantages: Among the greatest novels ever written. Disadvantages: You'd be best to take a few maps,
one have whilst doing so, but if you want to know where you are, if you want to know what those lights in the miles-away might be, if you want to know where even you're positioned with relation to the nearest landmass, then you need assistance.
And so with this. Absolutely Ulysses is best approached with a map. And those maps may well need a fair few maps of their own. But this is not to say it cannot be picked up and read start to end and that some sense of a narrative and of the characters buzzing around the periphery of said narrative will not take shape. It's just that to get the most from it - and there is so, so much to be gotten from it - you absolutely need either some sort of annotated version or, failing that, some close commentary of some kind to refer to every other line.
Joyce envisioned a kind of encyclopedia, and to ...
Advantages: The best reading experience ever Disadvantages: It ends? I will read it again and again and again?
Ulysses by JamesJoyce
For me, JamesJoyce's Ulysses is not just a novel; it is a complete project. When I first read the book a couple of years ago, I was very apprehensive; I prepared some reference books and articles from the Internet, took a deep breath, and yet was unsure as to whether I would be able to appreciate such a difficult book properly. The novel has the same structure of The Odyssey, and I honestly don't remember which one of the two I read first, but I don't believe that reading Homer's epic is a prerequisite for reading Joyce's twentieth century epic.
As I mentioned earlier, there are so many guides that can help you read this book, and this is one of the books in which reading a summary won't spoil your enjoyment, but to make things easier and more fun, I advise you to take a look at Ulysses for Dummies ...
Advantages: Good reading Disadvantages: Using references a fair bit.
Dubliners is a collection of short stories by JamesJoyce, 15 in all, written about the people and places in Dublin.(Oddly enough)
JamesJoyce (1882-1941) was born in Dublin to a middle class catholic family, whose social and economic status declined during Joyce's youth and adolescence.
"Dubliners" Joyce himself remarked, was meant to reveal the paralysis at the heart of Irish society. Each of the 15 stories deals with a different aspect of Dublin life. Joyce claimed there was a structural progression followed, from childhood to adolescence through to adulthood and private life. (Though this is disputed by some)
If you know little about Joyce, as I did, this is an excellent place to start finding out. I wasn't really going to bother, I thought until my wife collected enough i Points to afford a trip to Dublin.
The ferry we went ...
