Joyce's Ulysses for Everyone (ePub)
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Mood attempts to cut through these grids and go directly to the strengths of the novel: - its suspenseful double plot, its breathtaking wordplay, its eroticism and, above all, its constant hilarious comedy. One doesn''t need to know a thing about the Odyssey to enjoy Ulysses thoroughly.
The life of the young Stephen Dedalus is in a mess and he obviously needs an elder''s advice. The older Leopold Bloom yearns to pass on his wisdom to someone younger. He also learns his wife Molly is going to commit adultery for the first time. These plots, not Catholic theology or Hamlet, is what the novel is "about". And the comedy, the sex, the heart-stopping suspense and the verbal fireworks are what drive the reader on.
Moods book makes this obvious on every page. One will never have difficulty reading Ulysses again.
The late dean of American critics Leslie Fiedler said it would be "more useful [for beginning readers] than anything else I have seen".
Best-selling Dublin novelist and memoirist Nuala O''Faolain said it is a "charming and funny account of Ulysses" and "quite authoritative as well."
Tom Wolfe commented, "I certainly enjoyed your Joycean excursion, particularly the part about Joyces interweaving of various narrative voices.
Mood, a Ph.D. in literature and philosophy, taught at the university level for ten years. He published numerous scholarly articles (PMLA, Chicago Review. Philosophy Today) on existentialism (Nietzsche, Heidegger) and literature (Beckett, Swift, Frost, Sexton). He spoke at two international Joyce symposia (Trieste, 1971; Dublin, 1973).
After leaving academia, he became a freelance writer popularizing astronomy, while continuing his literary interests, especially in Joyce and the German-language poet Rainer Maria Rilke. His book, Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties, has been in print with W. W. Norton continuously since 1975, making it the second largest selling book on Rilke in the entire English-speaking world.
Now he turns his unique attention to Ulysses, which he hopes to popularize as he has Rilke and astronomy.
- Autor: John Mood
- 2004, 124 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: AUTHORHOUSE
- ISBN-10: 1418460338
- ISBN-13: 9781418460334
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.06.2004
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