'It is not that Ulysses excludes us; it is, rather, that it includes us in ways that no other work prepares us for. The question is not 'what is a novel?', but what can a novel be?
Ulysses is the answer'
Patrick McGuinness from his preface to Ulysses: The Restored TextInitially rejected by several printers in Dublin and London for containing 'obscene' content, Ulysses was first published in book form in a limited-edition printing of 1000 copies by Shakespeare and Company in Paris in 1922. A subsequent printing was impounded by US customs and for a period the novel was famed for its notoriety rather than its literary achievement.
Like its author, Ulysses exists in a complicated push-pull relationship with its language - English - and its setting - Ireland. Joyce returns to the themes that had preoccupied him in previous works, including nationalism and empire, religion, identity and sex in a novel which gloriously brings Dublin on June 16th 1904 to the page.
This edition of Ulysses: The Restored Text includes the revisions that Joyce made to the novel during his lifetime.
By:
James Joyce Preface by:
Patrick McGuinness Edited by:
Danis Rose, John O'Hanlon Imprint: John Murray Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 130mm,
Spine: 58mm
Weight: 700g ISBN:9781529405538 ISBN 10: 152940553X Series:riverrun editions Pages: 592 Publication Date:28 September 2021 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
