James Joyce: Ulysses: Annotated Students' Edition (Penguin Modern Classics) [2011] paperback CCLAS Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth

'Edgy and provocative

'Revelatory' New Yorker

The nun is dead

Yoshiro thinks he might never die

James Joyce: Ulysses: Annotated Students' Edition (Penguin Modern Classics) [2011] paperback CCLAS Angela DuckworthFor 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