Ulysses (Gabler Edition)

The book arrived with a broken binding, bent pages, and a warped cover.

This book crazy FR. Word up. James Joyce = G.O.A.T.

O livro foi entregue com muita rapidez.Uma bela edição. Fiquei muito satisfeito.Muito obrigado!

The magnitude of genius and complexity of James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses can not be understated. Perhaps the most ambitious, most intimidating, most notorious, and single greatest novel of 20th century- if not all of literature. I own two different editions of the novel: the Every Man's Library hardcover edition, a fine and handsome book, presented in three parts/chapters and is excellent; and the Vintage "Gabler Edition", which I strongly prefer, this version has a more complete text, the lines are numbered, the book is arranged into 18 titled chapters making it easier to navigate the running themes and vast references to Homer's Odyssey, all this makes this undertaking much less difficult, and even after many months of reading and use the soft cover book's spine did not crease or crack. Truly excellent. The novel is enormously challenging and the more you can understand the more rewarding and impressive it becomes. It obviously helps to know Homer's Odyssey, it's parallels are incredibly numerous. I also highly recommend reading Joyce's Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man before this, it gives backstory to the Stephen Dedalus character (as well Joyce himself and his narrative style). It helps, but not necessary, to get acquainted with Irish history, the works of Shakespeare, Dante, and maybe Yeats. If you can make it through the Proteus chapter you should be able to make through the book, although Oxen Of The Sun is the most demanding chapter. As for extraneous materials: Joseph Campell's books were good, but the best, most helpful by far for me was Prof. James A. Heffernan's invaluable, enjoyable lectures on DVD from The Great Courses. Reading this masterpiece can be great fun, especially for lovers of myth, as it's basis Homer's Odyssey, the ancient Greek epic poem of Odysseus' (Ulysseys in Latin) remarkable twenty year return from the Trojan War to vanquish his faithful wife's suitors and reclaim his usurped home, one of the grandest adventures of heroic myth, is here reimagined, reinvented, reincarnated, and regurgitated into a single mundane day in Dublin- June 16th 1904. This longest day in literature is actually quite eventful, as the day dovetails into the twists and turns of adman Leopold Bloom, his quest back home to wife, Molly, their complicated relationship, and the academic Stephen Dedalus, a trinity of existential wanderers, a father, a surrogate son and a mother, the natural world, the mind, and spiritual all culminate in a metaphysical meditation on the human condition and the link between the ancient and modern world. Some Highlights: Stephen's ponderous walk along the strand (absolutely great- my favourite chapter), Bloom's pork kidney breakfast, the food buffet of Lystrygonians, Stephen's theories on Hamlet and Shakespeare, the music of the sirens, the hilarious overblown parody in Cyclops, the cosmic Ithaca, and Molly Bloom's stream of consciousness/soliloquy -an intellectual knock out punch. Told in a variety of styles and voices in a vivid city, Joyce's command of language is unsurpassed, it even becomes apparent he is delightfully toying with the reader. The work is dense with symbolism and language- including Latin, French, Italian, multiple forms of English (not to mention Joyce's own unique wordplay and onomatopoeia !). It's notoriety is also well earned, and is still earthy and vulgar a century later, though much of it is rather humorous -every bodily function is included as well as frank aspects of life, death, birth, religion, love, sex, memories, food, music, art, literature, science, culture and society...- the whole kitchen sink. Indeed this book is not for everyone but it is richly rewarding, completely unique, and may still has the power to alter a reader's view of what is capable in a real world literary landscape. Consider also reading Joyce's daunting final work Finnegan's Wake, a dream time novel beyond description, Alfred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, the works of Virginia Woolf, and even T.S. Eliot's poetry.

かなり便利な本です。気に入りました。それに値段が安くて使いやすい。５０年間以上使ってきた手元のシェークスピア版と比べてもほぼ同じページ数です。手元の本が１００年程前の本でかなり傷んでいて、適当なファクシミリ版が欲しいと思っていました。『ユリシーズ』を読む方は、北村富治「ユリシーズ大全」慧文社が最も安心できる正確な注釈書です。Don Gifford,Notes For Joyce（全幅の信頼はおけないが）と合わせて、原典を読まれると面白いです。どの翻訳も第一章の一行目から、問題があります。私は北村氏が二つの解釈をあげていますが、消極的の述べられている方を古代ギリシャの修辞学の見地からとる者です。過去の翻訳は、英文解釈としてはまあ面白いですが、ジョイスの真意が全く伝わりません。日本では、西脇順三郎のジョイス関係の文章、詩などにユリシーズが用いた修辞的用法を活用しているので、日本語にする場合大いに参考になります。『ユリシーズ』という名前にびくつかず、若い方は、この本で挑戦してみてはいかがですか？　日本語としての処女地が最もひろがっているのが『ユリシーズ』です。一生おつき合いの出来る小説が私にとっては『ユリシーズ』です。

Il prodotto risponde a tutte le caratteristiche con cui è stato presentato: il prezzo è più che ottimo, le condizioni anche (contando che mi è stato venduto come usatola copertina ha qualche piega, giustamente, ma all'interno è praticamente NUOVO) e, cosa ancora più apprezzabile da parte mia, mi è stato consegnato CON LARGO ANTICIPO rispetto alla data di consegna prevista. Che dire, sono pienamente soddisfatta e pronta a nuovi acquisti presso questo rivenditore.