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You get the full original text of Ulysses by James Joyce interwoven with a smart, plain-spoken guide to the characters, quotes, themes, symbols, and more from Shmoop.Designed exclusively for Kindle readers, Shmoop Classics for Kindle offer the original text of some of the greatest works of literature with a built-in interactive guide to help you dig deep into the characters, symbols, themes, and big questions of the play.For the student and the life-long learner alike, take your classroom on the road and build your brain muscles daily.No need to weigh your backpack down, no need to waste paper, no need to get sleepy in class.Shmoop is here to make you a better lover of literature and to help you discover connections to other works of literature, history, current events, and pop culture.You’ll find thought-provoking character analyses, quotes, summaries, themes, symbols, trivia, and lots of insightful commentary.Key quotes from the original text are linked to deep analysis from Shmoop. Academics from top universities, including Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, and Columbia, have written content designed to engage you and to get your brain bubbling.With Shmoop’s fun, conversational, and accessible tone, you’ll feel as though you are chatting with friends over coffee. These interactive study guides will help you discover and rediscover some of the greatest works of all time.For more information, check out http://www.shmoop.com/kindle/"Best of the Internet" - PC Magazine"Shmoop impresses me because it is intentionally about learning, and the joy of learning, not just about passing courses and jumping through educational hoops." - Paul Hamilton, teacher and education blogger"Shmoop features deep analysis of topics in history and literature, sprinkled with a heavy dose of wry humor." – eSchoolNews ... Read more

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Strictly a beginner's guide
This has a lot of commentary, almost as much as text, and it's certainly reader-friendly. Instead of talking about Stephen Dedalus's intelligence, it takes care to talk about his "smarts." It explains each chapter at large, and is very much aimed at college freshman trapped into reading ULYSSES.

Early on commentary says that if you really want to know what (for example) Stephen's thoughts are referring to, Shroop will tell you a little, but you're going to need Gifford's annotated version to get all, or even most, of the allusions.

(The old Gilbert Murray discussion of Ulysses, made in consultation with Joyce, tells you most of what Joyce wanted to help you with and is less frustrating than a book that gives you SOME line-by-line help, but not much, and really not enough.)

Also, each chapter is treated individually by just two commentary chapters, one a plot summary, the other more of an analysis of themes. There is no way to go from a specific line to a specific explanation of that line. Other commentary sections talk about theme, importance, and so on, but again in a beginner's way.

The typesetting is early Gutenberg simple, and verse appears as prose. No italics (which the Gutenberg version now has); just _underlines_ beside words.

Not a bad book, but the method used probably works a lot better with the other books Shroop helps with, which are easier to understand in the first place. Referring you to Gifford's Annotated Commentary is a dead giveaway. ... Read more

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The return of a classic: This biography of the young James Joyce is "a remarkable exposition of the relationship between a famous man and [his] brother."--T. S. Eliot.

Stanislaus Joyce was more than his brother's keeper: he was at various times his brother's co-dependent, touchstone, conscience, and biggest fan. The two shared the same genius, the same childhood influences, and had the same literary instinct, but in Stanislaus it was channeled into sober academic pursuit, while in James it evolved into gaiety, wild whimsy, and at times sodden despair.

Covering the first twenty-two years of James Joyce's life in Dublin and Trieste, My Brother's Keeper is a window onto the drama that was his youth. Thanks to Stanislaus's superb memory and sure hand, here we find the Dublin of Dubliners: the streets, neighbors, churches, and unforgettable eccentrics. Here we see the model for Ulysses' Simon Dedalus: James' father, a dour and violent figure when in his cups. Here are the Joyces in their own home, and the minor characters that pepper A Portrait of the Artist: Eileen, Leopold Bloom's comely daughter; Mrs. Riordan, the surly teacher; Mr. Casey, the political agitator. And finally, here is Trieste, a place of exile for Stanislaus but a retreat for James. Stanislaus Joyce has fashioned both an invaluable primary source for his brother's opaque masterpieces and a loving memoir of his brother's early life. ... Read more

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EXCELLENT INSIGHT INTO THE ARTIST
STan really did keep and care for James and his family, including when JAmes briefly returned to Ireland to establish an art cinema chain leaving his family in ITaly.

Excellent insight into the brilliant writer by his also brilliant brother. Please read this book for greater understanding and afection for the specifics of Joyce's work (how stan was pictured in the story A Painful Case), although the view of the universal themes grows dim as we can no longer see the woods for the trees

Essential to any complete James JOyce bookshelf and a wonderful and grateful gift for any member of the fervent Joycean faith
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Of the stories Joyce collected in DUBLINERS, “The Dead” was the last in order of composition. Joyce began to plan the story during his brief interlude in Rome in 1906, but he did not begin to write this modern parable of the rivalry between the living and the dead until he returned to Trieste in the spring of 1907.

Joyce wrote “The Dead,” and all the other stories in DUBLINERS, with loving care for the geographical, historical, and political details of his native city. As a consequence most of the local references are painstakingly exact; they are part of Joyce’s “realism” and are often suggestive of everyday Dublin life.

We have supplied glosses where the significance of these references goes beyond matters of local color or Joycean realism. The aim of the footnotes, therefore, is to explain topical and religious references, literary allusions, historical and political nuances, and Irishisms which are likely to baffle the modern-day reader. ... Read more

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Joyce termina su Ulises en Triest, entre 1919 y 1920. Fue publicado en un volumen en el ano 1922. La primera edicion se realiza en idioma ingles en Paris y representa una deslumbrante empresa jamas intentada por ningun autor. Siguiendo la huella de la Odisea homerica considerada como un viaje experimental en el mundo antiguo, el autor hace recorrer a sus dos personajes una ciudad moderna, Dublin, que puede dar una sintesis material y espiritual del mundo de hoy. Losada presenta esta obra, en la magnifica traduccion de Salas Subirat que saca a flote un intrincado sistema literario dificil de trasladar. Por todo esto, esta obra no debe faltar en ninguna biblioteca ya que con ella comenzo un nuevo tiempo literario. Antes y despues de Ulises, es el axioma que define esta obra incomparable. ... Read more

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Dubliners - James Joyce's stories of his native homeland - performed by a cast of 15 different actors originating from Ireland.  Unabridged.

The fifteen stories that make up this brilliant audio roam over a human landscape that stretches from the bleakest of despair to the most blinding of epiphanies.  First published in 1914, the stories are as lucid and accessible as they are memorable poignant.

As you listen to the cast of internationally famous stage and screen actors perform Dubliners, both the spiritually deadening atmosphere that drove Joyce from his homeland and the irresistible emotional pull it always kept on him to the end of his days become heartbreakingly beautiful.

Dubliners is an audio experience that will only grow in richness with each time you listen. 

The stories and performers are:

Sisters - Frank McCourt

An Encounter - Patrick McCabe

Araby - Colm Meaney

Eveline - Dearbhla Molloy

After the Race - Dan O'Herlihy

Two Gallants - Malachy McCourt

The Boarding House - Donal Donnelly

A Little Cloud - Brendan Coyle

Counterparts - Jim Norton

Clay - Sorcha Cusack

A Painful Case - Ciaran Hinds

Ivy Day in the Committee Room - T.P. McKenna

A Mother - Fionnula Flanagan

Grace - Charles Keating

The Dead - Stephen Rea

 

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Joyce Is Meant to Be Read Aloud
James Joyce was absorbed by music, people, languages, acting and actors, and though an exile from his native country and city, his literary consciousness was forever embedded in Dublin. He had an unerring ear for Dublin dialogue.
At night I turn out the lights and listen to these CD's, to the cadences of the people talking, and to me these Dubliners endlessly gossiping are in the room with me. Joyce's narrative adroitness, his choice of words, his lyrical descriptions, and above all, his sense of place are brilliant facets of a genius.
Stephen Rea's sensitive reading of "The Dead" is worth the price of this set of fifteen stories read by fifteen different mostly Irish personalities. The characters in the stories live and breathe, become real. Joyce was meant to be read aloud. It's good talk, conversations that you become a part of.
In these stories Joyce is very accessible. In Finnegan's Wake he became Jackson Pollock--obscure and difficult. In "The Dead" you can feel, touch, hear, and taste the snow that is falling outside the house while inside two old sisters are giving their annual bright and cheery party. It's a story of tenderness, love, regrets, and lost lovers, but it is mainly full of life, good times, fellowship, and above all humanity.

Dublin digitally discerned and declaimed
Handsomely produced, elegantly assembled, and consistently engrossing: these actors read the stories with appropriate sensitivity, wit, pathos, and distance. The detachment of Joyce in his "voice" on the page is re-created well. When I have taught students "Araby" or "The Boarding House," the chance to hear the language repeated as its author would have meant it to be rendered makes these stories come alive for a classroom six thousand miles and a century away from early 20c Dublin.

Although all of the stories succeed, those in the center of the book emerged when conveyed aloud most enlighteningly. Clay, A Mother, A Painful Case, and most of all Two Gallants, After the Race, and Counterparts all hit my ear with more force than they had when I had only read them. These stories are often overlooked compared to the others, but the skill that the actors brought to these more prosaic, less lively, and more nuanced examples of Joyce's careful craft deserve special acclaim. The packaging keeps the CDs securely in place, is itself compact and well-designed, fitting its outwardly austere & Edwardian yet subtly decorated and inviting contents.

Students, the curious newcomer, the experienced teacher, and those who read the book out of delight and not duty: all will benefit from the music on the page that by a technology Joyce himself spoke into at its early gramaphone stages is now digitally preserved so that those of us all over the world and a vastly changed world later can be entertained and instructed. I think JJ might have been pleased at this version of his pioneering, eloquent, yet accessible and moving, accounts of his imagined neighbors and municipal counterparts. ... Read more

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Joyce's semi-autobiographical first novel follows Stephen Dedalus, a sensitive and creative youth who rebels against his family, his education, and his country by committing himself to the artist's life.

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The complete and unabridged text, now corrected and entirely reset. Like the first American edition, published by Random House in 1934, this new edition contains the original foreword by the author, the historic decision by Judge John M. Woolsey whereby the Federal ban on Ulysses was finally removed, and a foreword by Morris Ernst. ... Read more

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Similar to Paris 1922 publication
All Joyce fans know about the strange history of the publication of Ulysses.This copy is a good size, fits in a bag easily, and is easy to carry.Some editions of U have a table of contents with the Greek parallels noted--did Joyce do this at some point?Anyhow, there is no table of contents (which it typical for most editions).This makes it difficult to study, esp. to link it with annotations.I find myself going from text to text trying to find my place in U and the annotations (I use Don Gifford's text).If you aren't willing to put in the time to study the text, I would suggest a text with a table of contents, if you know U and/or like the game of the book, I would highly recommend this edition. ... Read more

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Ulysses, a Modernist reconstruction of Homer's epic The Odyssey, was James Joyce's first epic-length novel. The Irish writer had already published a collection of short stories entitled Dubliners, as well as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the semi-autobiographical novella, whose protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, reappears in Ulysses. Immediately hailed as a work of genius, Ulysses is still considered to be the greatest of Joyce's literary accomplishments and his first two works anticipated what was to come in Ulysses.

This edition contains extensive overviews of both the author and the novel. ... Read more

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Crazy good!
Okay, this is clearly the most thought out book I have ever read. You go through it, and you pick out any part and say, why must he be so wordy about two people getting a Guinness, but you realize that he is putting all the mythical overload into trivial events, and that while it is absurd, it is true. If you can read this book in a class, that would be best, but at least be sure to have a complete guide so that you can get some of the allusions. You don't need to catch EVERYthing. It is very show-offy, a bit like Joyce is trying to just pack every single piece of information he's ever picked up into this novel. This can be annoying, but it is also amazing. And I think that was his point, to describe his world and everything in it, through the story of a common man, whose heroism so deeply embedded in him is overlooked.

Best cheap edition, w/comparison
I downloaded the previews of all 50+ ebook editions of Ulysses and wrote short reviews for all of them, but Amazon rejected all but 10, so I lost a lot of the data I was going to use for a final comparison.But among the versions I have records for, this one looks like the best.

It's a scan of the controversial 'corrected' Gabler edition, with an 18-chapter ToC and decent italics. It also includes Wikipedia articles on Ulysses and Joyce as frontmatter.

Among the rest, the only non-Gabler editions I've spotted are Ulysses: (A Modern Library E-Book) (its ToC only has the 3 'books') and the Penguin Ulysses.

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Hope this is useful-- hard to know where to post it since Amazon rejected the piecemeal approach. ... Read more

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Considered to be cast in a daring rhetorical mode, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel by James Joyce. Originally published as a series, the novel continually interacts with Irish history and culture.

The title, James Joyce’s A Portrait of Artist As Young Man, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on James Joyce’s A Portrait of Artist As Young Man through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics.This collection of criticism also features a short biography on James Joyce, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. ... Read more

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WHAT CAN HE MEAN?
Though not essential, this certainly is helpful in understanding Joyce, if that is possible. I did find myself referring to it less and less as I read more & more of Joyce. I was going to go back and reread this all the way through, but like many of my intentions..... Definitely worthwhile for a student, useful to the casual reader of Joyce.

One of the best guides to Joyce
This is an excellent overall work- by- work survey of the prose writings of James Joyce. Joyce especially in 'Ulysses' and 'Finnegan's Wake' begs for the reader to use all resources possible to aid in the understanding of his work. The question is how much time the reader wishes to give. Joyce notoriously demanded that his readers give 'all the years of the nights' to his work. It is doubtful that many people will do that. This Guide can however be a way into understanding a world deliberately constructed as to forever hold the reader's interest by endlessly providing new puzzles and mysteries.

"Understanding" Joyce
The book is a clear and compelling guide to Joyce's main works. Tindall's enthusiasm is contagious.

"...Ulysses offers something of value to someone. What part of this is received depends upon the capacity, experience, and taste of the receiver. Homeric similie: as a radio station of great power broadcasts in vain unless a receiver is there with the power on and all the tubes in order; as the power and quality of the receiver are the success of the broadcast; so with Ulysses and the reader."

"For me the significance of the form Joyce made and I all but apprehend is a humane and charitable understanding of mankind that makes me glad to be alive and part of it. Charity, for me, is the radiance of this great whole, this intricate harmony."

Tindall was one of the greats re Joyce
Buy this one, and also seek out his "Reader's Guide to 'Finnegans Wake'". Pretty much essential, I'd say. Well written, informative, and strangely fun. Wish I could've met Tindall! "In risu veritas." ... Read more

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Joyce perfected his technique of stream-of-consciousness in this classic work of modernism, which recounts a day in the life of Leopold Bloom, an antihero cast as a modern-day Ulysses.

The title, James Joyce’s Ulysses, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on James Joyce’s Ulysses through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics.This collection of criticism also features a short biography on James Joyce, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. ... Read more

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This correspondence provides a balance between the letters of Joyce as a man, and as a writer. ... Read more

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Can someone explain to me why this is out of print?
Unbelieveable. There is no doubting that James Joyce was one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. His contribution to modern literature is still being felt 60 years after his death. And, yet, his letters, which are as close as we will ever get to knowing what he was thinking while composing his great works, are no longer available in print?

Thank God I purchased this book years ago! Richard Ellmann had done a tremendous job of sorting and compiling Joyce's letters in a way that shows us Joyce's thinking as he put together "Dubliners", "Exiles", "Stephen Hero", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", "Ulysses", and "Finnegan's Wake". While some (back when the book first came out) questioned the extremely private/sexual communications that Ellmann included, no one doubted the importance of all the other selected letters. This is a remarkable look into the mind of a great writer, and I hope some publisher will pick it up and reprint it. In the meanwhile, try to get a used copy through Amazon.

Quite unique and absolutely fascinating.
This book contains a suite of new letters to Joyce's wife Nora and another to his benefactress Harriet Weaver, which have been abridged or excluded from previous editions. The explicit nature of these love letters makes them unlike anything you have read before. This book delivers the full Joyce - unabridged and uncensored. ... Read more

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Teal leather with gilt decoration and lettering. Other features include smyth-sewn pages, moire fabric endsheets and a satin ribbon page marker. Illustrated by Henri Matisse. ... Read more

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Joyce's Irish experiences constitute an essential element of his writings, and provide all of the settings for his fiction and much of their subject matter. His early volume of short stories, Dubliners, is a penetrating analysis of the stagnation and paralysis of Dublin society. The final and most famous story in the collection, "The Dead," was made into a feature film in 1987, directed by John Huston (it was Huston's last major work).

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outstanding!
Dubliners by James Joyce

Kindle edition of Joyce's extraordinary book. Literature for those who appreciate it. ... Read more

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Exiles is a play by James Joyce, who is principally remembered for his novels. It draws on the story of "The Dead", the final short story in Joyce's first major work, Dubliners, and was rejected by W. B. Yeats for production by the Abbey Theatre. It first major London performance was in 1970, when Harold Pinter directed it at the Mermaid Theatre.

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Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, "The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. Rightfully considered a short story masterpiece, "The Dead" tells the tale of a man (Gabriel) who, at a party hosted by his aunts in Dublin in the early part of the 20th century, has a moment of self-realization and spiritual awakening when his wife tells him about a relationship she had as a young girl with a youth who loved her passionately. James Joyce's elegant story details the New Year's Eve gathering as so evocative and beautiful that it prompted Gabriel's wife to make a shocking revelation to her husband, closing the story with an emotionally powerful epiphany that is unsurpassed in modern literature. A beautifully written story by a masterful author, the ending paragraphs in "The Dead" are some of the most haunting and lyrical in all of literature. ... Read more

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This book contains eighteen original essays by leading Joyce scholars on the eighteen separate chapters of Ulysses. It attempts to explore the richness of Joyce's extraordinary novel more fully than could be done by any single scholar. Joyce's habit of using, when writing each chapter in Ulysses, a particular style, tone, point of view, and narrative structure gives each contributor a special set of problems with which to engage, problems which coincide in every case with certain of his special interests. The essays in this volume complement and illuminate one another to provide the most comprehensive account yet published of Joyce's many-sided masterpiece. ... Read more

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Views Various
I am no Joycean scholar but as "Ulysses" is consistently rated as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century I was determined to get through it and understand it as best I could.This collection of essays I found very helpful and while the authors have way too much time on their hands to be considering Joyce's novel to the depth they do (one of them actually retraced the steps of all the characters in the Wandering Rocks episode to determine whether Joyce's narrative was realistic), I did not find it a difficult read and it was interesting to have a variety of views from different critics in the one volume.I doubt whether I would have made it through "Ulysses" without this by my side, and also "Ulysses Annotated".I think I will leave "Finnegan's Wake" for the next metempsychosis.

Scholarly Essays Concerning the James Joyce's Novel Ulysses
These essays are mainly for the very well educated in literature who are unduly interested in Ulysses, and/or doing scholarly research on James Joyce.However, even attempting to read these essays does help one to get more meaning out of Joyce's great novel.These essays are hardly any easier to read than the novel itself, but if you have the intelligence and education to understand and appreciate them, it's certainly worth the effort.The essays cover all the chapters of the novel individually--not the novel as a whole--so if there is one particular chapter you are interested in learning more about, or having trouble understanding, you can find an essay that concentrates only on that particular chapter. ... Read more

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Arguing that "the appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke," Burgess provides a readable, accessible guide. "Burgess has written a study of the most brilliant and humane of twentieth-century humanists"--Philip Toynbee, The Observer. ... Read more

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Super
Burgess is very smart, and he's probably a better scholar of Joyce than writer himself.This book has great insight into Ulysses which I enjoyed learning after reading Ulysses for myself, but the real treasure is the chapters about Finnegan's Wake, which makes some sense after reading this assessment.You'll at least have some idea as to the purpose and scope and arc of Finnegan, whereas otherwise, really what are you going to do with it?Besides impress people by leaving it in your bathroom or on the coffee table?Easy to read, rarely dry, but always in depth, very intelligent, extremely well-crafted.The first and foremost Joyce book I would recommend- he also dabbles into Portrait and other Joyce works here and there so it covers everything.You can read Joyce without it, and I did, but its great to have too.Also, I would not use this as a companion, I like it as an afterward- read Ulysses then look at this.But I think it would make a good foreward too, if you want more structure to your struggles.This can certainly make Joyce more accessible and an easier read.

Good, lucid, helpful companion to Ulysses
Having read Joyce's works numerous times, I found Burgess's book provides a good bit of clarity to the tougher parts of Ulysses and an interesting exegesis of Joyce's work in general.Burgess's knowledge of the material is impressive and his enthusiasm for Joyce is infectious. I believe this book would be as helpful to one with little Joyce experience as Harry Blamire's Bloomsday book, but it is more sohisticated than the author lets on.

One of Burgess's main theses is that Joyce meant this book for everyone and that readers shouldn't be scared away by academics and others who would set the book above out heads, high in the ivory tower.Yet, there are definitely parts where he presents Joyce's characters (whom he calls "the humble men of Dublin"), in supercilious language, which risks defeating his point.Why potentially further obscure Ulysses and Finnegans Wake in a book meant to make them more approachable?

That said, the book is well written and lucid for the most part.A fan of Joyce should enjoy it. I cannot gush as unequivocally about the book as some other reviewers have, because I am not sure how successful he has been at his goal of bringing Joyce to a new audience that has never previously read him due to intimidation.I think I am too familiar with Joyce to be able to tell how helpful ReJoyce would be for the first-timer.From what they've written, I think the other reviewers may be too familiar also.

In summary, Joyce IS challenging, but one should not be scared away. I believe ReJoyce is more helpful than harmful in opening Ulysses et al to a broader audience.

A student reads a master- teacher
Burgess is a novelist of tremendous linguistic energy and inventiveness, one who searches out many worlds, scholarly and not. His career path seems much more ' foxlike' and scattered than does the hedgehog - like career in Joyce which seems to go increasingly toward the realization of one great system in literature. In this study of the work of Joyce he tells the life- story but concentrates more on introducing the common reader to Joyce's two large tomes, Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. He writes with skill and sympathy and even the seasoned Joyce reader can learn much from his work. It is a valuable contribution to the vast Joycean scholarship which continues to grow and grow with the years.

Burgess is not the best
To my mind, Burgess is one of the least interesting commentators on Joyce. (Don't get me started on what a poor linguist he is--"Mouthful of Air," for example, is terrible.) He rarely gets beyond the obvious, at least not without getting it wrong. Rather than spending time reading Burgess, I would recommend that those interested in understanding Joyce turn instead to Richard Ellmann, Hugh Kenner, and Stuart Gilbert--all of whom are superior critics.

One Great Mind Parses Another
If you are looking for a fairly short, easy to digest introductory guideto Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, this is it.Anthony Burgess, in additionto being a witty novelist and critic, also had the chutzpah to publish anabridged version of Finnegan's Wake, so you know he knows his stuff!Thisis not a page by page explication of Joyce's complex works, ala Gifford orGilbert, but more like a defense for the intelligent reader who may bewondering if these novels are worth the time.

It is wonderful that thecover of this June 2000 paperback reissue has features an image of Joycelooking away, his facehidden from the reader.Joyce remains an enigma--a sparkling inspiration to readers who enjoy thinking about the questionsand don't care about definitive answers.

If you've read A ClockworkOrange or Nothing Like the Sun and are curious about Anthony Burgess'critical work, this is one of his best performances. ... Read more