In this article, I just want to touch on four observations about the novel of interest to Christian readers. If you are willing to give Ulysses a go, Shakespeare & Company, have released a podcast, Friends of Shakespeare and Company Read Ulysses, which is exactly what it says on the tin. Joyce offers Bloom as a contemporary Odysseus and his ordinary day as this hero’s odyssey. The title alludes to Homer’s epic The Odyssey, about Odysseus’ beleaguered attempts to return home from the Trojan War. Finally, the novel concludes with a long, punctuation-free interior monologue from Molly. He rescues Stephen from a fight and invites him home for a cup of cocoa and to stay the night.
īloom follows Stephen and his friends as they head drunkenly towards ‘nighttown’. Ulysses follows thirty-eight-year-old Leopold Bloom as he goes about his day as he considers the fact that his wife Molly (Marion), is planning to cheat on him as he ponders the strain on their marriage ever since the death of their eleven-day-old son.Įarly in the day, Bloom crosses paths with twenty-two-year-old Stephen Dedalus-a man haunted by the memory of refusing to comply with his dying mother’s request to pray for her frustrated with his treacherous friends and considering to soon leave Ireland. While now widely recognised as one of the great novels of the twentieth century, Ulysses is not universally beloved.
It radically experiments with plot (or lack of plot) and genre it is sometimes irreverent to the point of blasphemy, sometimes smutty. While now widely recognised as one of the great novels of the twentieth century, it is not universally beloved. Ulysses celebrated its centenary of publication in February of this year and will be further celebrated on June 16 th-called ‘Bloomsday’ by fans of the book. Ulysses, Irish author James Joyce’s encyclopaedic novel, vividly immerses us in the birth of the modern, urban, capitalist, industrialised, secular world.
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