SOMMER 1954, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK

WER: M, Anfang dreißig

WAS: James Joyce, Ulysses

WO: Long Island, New York

VON WANN: USA, 1918 (Auszüge); FR, 1919 (Auszüge); FR, 1922 (zensiert)

VON WEM: USA, Little Review, 1918 (Auszüge); FR, Egoist, 1919 (Auszüge);  FR, Shakespeare & Company, 1922 (erste Buchausgabe)
Die Veröffentlichungsgeschichte von Ulysses ist lang und wirr. Einen kurzen Überblick kann man auf der englischen Wikipedia bekommen.

Eve Arnold, Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses, Long Island, 1954

WAS SAGT DER VERLAG:

Penguin Books UK
For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowderlization, legal action and bitter controversy. 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 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.