Transcript Ulysses” by James Joyce

“ULYSSES” BY JAMES JOYCE
•2°
February 1922: published in Paris while in
England it was banned for obscenity until 1936.
•It
is modeled on Homer’s Odyssey.
•The
novel deals with the events of one day in
Dublin, 16th June 1904, which is the anniversary of
Joyce’s first walk with Nora Barnacle, his future
wife.
•Eclipse of the narrator
the narrator
does not disappear but he is hidden.
•The female interior monologue
•Stream of consciousness
•Epiphany
•Free direct style
•There is no chronological events
•There is no punctuation
•There are no paragraph
…
The organizing principle is given by the association of ideas,
which are Molly’s thoughts.
apparently at random and formless,
do have a form. They begins with
the words yes and ends with the
word.
Leopold Bloom  Ulysses  is the common sensual man, curious of
new experiences but not efficient. He looks forward to scientific
certaines and human relationship he is not able to find.
Stephen Dedalus  Telemachus  is in search of spiritual values:
he rejects everything. He is a voluntary exiled. Very different from
Bloom but like him he is unable to satisfy is deepest expectations.
Both of them are pursuing a quest.
Molly Bloom  Penelope  the unfaithful wife. In the final
monologue she represents the sum of the whole women in the
novel. She is the quintessence of human nature.