Novel Ulysses

Ulysses is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. The first time became a series in the American Journal of The Little Review from March 1918 until December 1920, and later published as a whole by Shakespeare and Company owned by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922 in Paris.

Ulysses printed very thick, between 644-1000 depending on the page each edition consists of 250 thousand words, and has a vocabulary of about 30 thousand. The novel is divided into 18 chapters that each chapter commonly referred to by critics as an episode. Ulysses is currently considered a modernist masterpiece flow. In this novel there are a variety of experiments in prose, such as parody, wordplay, allusions, stream of consciousness technique. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Ulysses first set on a list of 100 best English novels of the 20th century

Ulysses tells about Leopold Bloom's journey through the city of Dublin on June 16, 1904 (where it was the day Joyce's first date with his future wife, Nora Barnacle).

18 episodes of Ulysses consists of:

Part I: The Telemachiad
Episode 1, Telemachus
Episode 2, Nestor
Episode 3, Proteus

Part II: The Odyssey
Episode 4, Calypso
Episode 5, Lotus Eaters
Episode 6, Hades
Episode 7, Aeolus
Episode 8, Lestrygonians
Episode 9, Scylla and Charybdis
Episode 10, Wandering Rocks
Episode 11, Sirens
Episode 12, Cyclops
Episode 13, Nausicaa
Episode 14, the oxen of the Sun
Episode 15, Circe

Part III: The Nostos
Episode 16, Eumaeus
Episode 17, Ithaca
Episode 18, Penelope


Ullysses novel may be very satisfy critics of the novel taste, but Ulysses was not a friendly book for general readers. It could be said if Ulysses is a book that "Joyce friendly", and just meet the tastes Joyce (and of course the fans of Joyce), most readers enjoy it on certain parts. And with so many posts people make about Ulysses, about what is hidden behind the Ulysses, the novel seemed more majestic, more difficult, increasingly out of reach.

Maybe that's what makes Stephen Joyce, grandson of James Joyce, always make efforts to critics who asked him to quote copyrighted more than 40 words. According to Stephen Joyce, Ulysses is a novel that could reasonably be read if only we would read it like we used to read novels.

Novel Data:
Author (s) James Joyce
Country France
Language English
Genre (s) modernist novel
Publisher Sylvia Beach (Shakespeare and Company)
Publication date 2 February 1922