5/28/2023 0 Comments James joyce best book![]() It was banned in America until 1934 because of its “pornographic” nature, a comical artefact of the country's prudishness. (I do not, on the other hand, recommend the Bloomsday Irish breakfast of kidneys and gizzards, which is positively Cronenberg-esque.) Perhaps that breakfast is a good metaphor some people, not happy with saying "Ulysses" is not to their taste, must pronounce it loathsome. While Bloomsday events outside of Dublin tend to be nerdy affairs in Edwardian dress, I do recommend a good public reading if you can find one. ![]() Joyce's devoted fans can be seen celebrating it every year. Today, June 16th, is Bloomsday, the day in which all of the action of "Ulysses" takes place in the spinning clockwork of Dublin in 1904. Given the flood of ecstatic imagination between the covers of James Joyce's novel, its more patient readers are marked for life by having read it. ![]() ![]() This was meant in a silly, snobbish kind of way, but he was right. Those that have read "Ulysses" and those that haven't,” my best friend stated plumply one day, dropping the surprisingly compact 783-page paperback on the table with a thud. ![]()
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