Ulysses. Annotated Students’ Edition
Beschreibung:
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. An undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishing wide-ranging allusions confirms its standing as an imperishable monument to the human condition. Declan Kiberd 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 Annotated Student Edition has full explanatory notes and line numbers for critical reference.
"Im Ulysses liegt das Dublin des 16. Juni 1904 vor uns ausgebreitet, durch die Phantasie unverändert und in fast allen Einzelheiten anhand von Karten und Adreßbüchern nachprüfbar", schreibt Anthony Burgess. "Aber", so fährt er fort, "der Roman Ulysses, der Dublin verherrlicht, indem er es zu einer ewigen Stadt des Geistes erhebt, hat es auf nüchterne oder trunkene Weise auch verwandelt. Wer Dublin betritt, betritt Ulysses -: man begibt sich in die Phantasie von James Joyce."