12/25/2023 0 Comments Ulysses novel![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hailed as one of the most important books of the 20th century for its thematic and technical innovations, bemoaned as a stylistic leg-pull and a substanceless Easter-egg hunt for stuffy professors, there are as many opinions about Ulysses as there are potential readers. For us, 100 years later, February 2, 1922, seems no less extraordinary as we mark the day Joyce’s second novel appeared as a bound edition. For the coterie of expatriates, writers, and intellectuals in Beach’s and Joyce’s orbits, this was an epoch-making day. Beach took a cab to deliver one copy to Joyce at his flat, and then proudly displayed the other Greek-blue tome in her bookshop. Dijon–Paris express train arrived at the Gare de Lyon and the conductor handed Sylvia Beach, the expatriate American owner of Shakespeare and Company and first-time publisher, the first two printed copies of Ulysses. These 700-plus pages cost James Joyce over seven years of labor through thousands of pages of notesheets, notebook drafts, fair-copy manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs, leading up to the morning of his 40th birthday, February 2, 1922. IN THE FIRST EDITION of Ulysses, 732 pages stretch from Buck Mulligan’s “Stately, plump” appearance atop the Sandycove Martello Tower to Molly Bloom’s final “Yes” as she lies in bed head to foot with Leopold Bloom at 7 Eccles Street. ![]()
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