Ulysses
“Ulysses will immortalize its author with the same certainty that Gargantua immortalized Rabelais and The Brothers Karamazov immortalized Dostoevsky…It comes nearer to being the perfect revelation of a personality than any book in existence.”
New York Times
Ulysses records the events of a single day in Dublin, June 16, 1904. It has three principal characters-Stephen Dedalus, the hero of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Leopold Bloom; and his wife, Molly. On this simple foundation Joyce builds his epic tale, the unparalleled literary achievement of the 20th century.
When first published in its entirety in Paris in 1922, its serial form had already been banned for obscenity in the United States. It was not until 1933 that Judge John M. Woolsey lifted the ban, declaring that it was not pornographic.
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