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It’s a big book – who’s to say what Kitty Ricketts did or didn’t do within its 1,000-or-so pages?
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that very soon after the publication of Ulysses, critics started to speculate that the novel as a form might be dying.”
James Joyce could hardly have imagined the extraordinary popularity of his novel "Ulysses," which will be celebrated throughout the world this June 16. Yet, it is the celebration of a book that is difficult, complex and has been read by only a fraction of the millions who have claimed to have done so.
On James Joyce’s 40th birthday, Sylvia Beach in Paris published his now most famous work, Ulysses, written in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris, 1914-1921. That was on February 2, 1922. Excerpts had appeared in the U.S. magazine The Little Review between 1918 and 1920.
Virginia Woolf called him 'nauseating'; elites found him uncouth. Yet on the centenary of Ulysses, Joyce seems more transgressive than ever