I proudly announce that today is Bloomsday!
Have you ever tried to read Ulysses, or why do you shy away from it? Any hardcore James Joyce enjoyer in this community?
I’ll share my story with Ulysses: I have to shamefully admit I never read the original, but only the German translation, which is of course not the Irish experience that Ulysses should be. The next cardinal sin I must confess is that I did not quite read Ulysses but listened to the audiobook. The narrators were great and carried me through without getting bored. I want to read some parts in the original language, and can’t quite decide which ones. I have an e-book version from gutenberg, but the quotation marks are missing, which makes me wish that standard ebooks would make an edition.
What are your favorite chapters? I quite like the part with the news articles. It’s funny, different, and the narrators of my audiobook did an especially good job with that chapter.
Update 4: my eyes are drooping now and finding it hard to keep up with the sheer pace of conversation here!! I’m going to put it down for now, but my biggest takeaway from this part so far is, despite the lack of punctuation and paragraphs, how accessible it is! It sounds like a gang of women gossiping!
Yeah, it certainly has the flow of stream of consciousness. After a while I got used to it and then, it indeed becomes quite accessible
I would not have picked up that book if it weren’t for seeing this thread so thank you! We should make this a Bloomsday tradition. A different chapter every year.