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Ulysses de James Joyce

Ulysses

Autor James Joyce
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Ce se întâmplă când măreția mitului antic se ciocnește frontal cu monotonia și mizeria unei zile obișnuite dintr-o metropolă modernă? În Ulysses, James Joyce proiectează structura „Odiseei” peste harta labirintică a Dublinului, transformând peregrinările lui Leopold Bloom într-o epopee a banalului. Remarcăm cum tensiunea centrală a operei se naște din acest contrast permanent: între structura formală extrem de rigidă — unde fiecare capitol este asociat unei culori, unei arte și unui organ corporal — și fluxul liber, adesea haotic, al conștiinței personajelor. Suntem de părere că forța acestui roman nu rezidă doar în inovația tehnică, ci în precizia cvasi-chirurgicală cu care Joyce a documentat orașul; autorul însuși afirma că, dacă Dublinul ar fi distrus, ar putea fi reconstruit piatră cu piatră folosind paginile sale drept plan. Cititorul care a apreciat explorarea identității și a mediului social din Dubliners va găsi aici aceleași teme, însă amplificate la o scară monumentală, unde limbajul nu doar descrie realitatea, ci o inventează prin parodie, jargon și simbolism. Spre deosebire de A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, unde narativul urmărește formarea unei singure minți, Ulysses devine un organism colectiv, o polifonie de stiluri care a redefinit literatura secolului XX. Ritmul lecturii variază de la introspecția lentă la efervescența comică, oferind o experiență care solicită și recompensează spiritul de observație al cititorului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781519190246
ISBN-10: 1519190247
Pagini: 452
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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Recomandăm această ediție Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics celor care doresc să parcurgă textul fundamental al modernismului literar. Cititorul câștigă acces la o operă care a testat limitele limbajului și ale cenzurii, oferind o radiografie totală a condiției umane. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege evoluția romanului contemporan, fiind un monument de inventivitate lingvistică ce transformă o zi de 16 iunie într-o eternitate literară.

Despre autor

James Joyce (1882–1941) a fost un romancier, poet și critic irlandez, considerat una dintre cele mai influente figuri ale avangardei moderniste. Născut în Dublin, a trăit cea mai mare parte a vieții în autoexil în orașe precum Trieste, Zurich și Paris. Opera sa a evoluat de la realismul psihologic din Dubliners (1914) și A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), până la experimentele lingvistice radicale din Ulysses și, ulterior, Finnegans Wake. Joyce a revoluționat tehnica fluxului conștiinței, rămânând profund ancorat în topografia și spiritul orașului său natal.

Descriere scurtă

Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Each episode has its own literary style, and the epic journey of Odysseus is only one of many correspondences that add layers of meaning to the text. Ulysses has been the subject of controversy since copies of the first English edition were burned by the New York Post Office Authorities. Includes unique illustrations

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A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's Ulysses is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd.
For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, his wife Molly, and a scintillating cast of supporting characters, Joyce pushes Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishingly wide-ranging allusions confirm its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition. Declan Kilberd says in his introduction that Ulysses is 'an endlessly open book of utopian epiphanies. It holds a mirror up to the colonial capital that was Dublin on 16 June 1904, but it also offers redemptive glimpses of a future world which might be made over in terms of those utopian moments.'
This edition is the standard Random House/Bodley Head text that first appeared in 1960.
James Joyce (1882–1941), the eldest of ten children, was born in Dublin, but exiled himself to Paris at twenty as a rebellion against his upbringing. He only returned to Ireland briefly from the continent but Dublin was at heart of his greatest works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. He lived in poverty until the last ten years of his life and was plagued by near blindness and the grief of his daughter's mental illness.
If you enjoyed Ulysses, you might enjoy Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, also available in Penguin Classics.
'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the twentieth century'
  Anthony Burgess, Observer

Notă biografică

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, his published letters and occasional journalism. Joyce was born in 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin, into a middle-class family. A brilliant student, he briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School before excelling at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's alcoholism and unpredictable finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin. In 1904, in his early twenties, Joyce emigrated to continental Europe with his partner (and later wife) Nora Barnacle. They lived in Trieste, Paris, and Zurich. Although most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce's fictional universe centres on Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of Ulysses, he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal."

Recenzii

“Joyce’s parallel use of The Odyssey…has the importance of a scientific discovery…It is simply a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history…It is, I seriously believe, a step toward making the modern world possible for art.” –T. S. Eliot

“Ulysses has enough verbal splendor to furnish a legion of novels…You will have difficulty finding a fuller portrait of the natural man.” –Harold Bloom, The Western Canon

“One might almost risk praising [Ulysses] for being a work of literature in which the spirit of one man is eternally confirmed in all its complexity.” –from the Introduction

With an Introduction by Craig Raine