Ulysses

An undisputed modernist classic Ulysses' ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishing wide-ranging allusions confirms its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition. This title states that Ulysses is 'an endlessly open book of utopian epiphanies.|James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882 the eldest of ten children in a family which after brief prosperity collapsed into poverty. He was none the less educated at the best Jesuit schools and then at University College Dublin and displayed considerable academic and literary ability. Although he spent most of his adult life outside Ireland Joyce's psychological and fictional universe is firmly rooted in his native Dublin the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939) as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). James Joyce died in Zürich on 13 January 1941.|For Joyce literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921 Ulysses has survived bowdlerization legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed modernist classic its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishing wide-ranging allusions confirms its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition. Declan Kiberd says in his introduction that Ulysses is 'an endlessly open book of utopian epiphanies. It holds a mirror up to the colonial capital that was Dublin on 16 June 1904 but it also offers redemptive glimpses of a future world which might be made over in terms of those utopian moments.'This Annotated Student Edition has full explanatory notes and line numbers for critical reference.|Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the twentieth century