ulysses

     

Ulysses is the Latin name for Oysseus, a character in ancient Greek literature.

Trivia about ulysses

  • Molly, the wife in this 1922 novel, represents a modern-day Penelope
  • Federal judge John Woolsey lifted the ban on the importation & sale of this James Joyce book
  • In 1976 "Home Sweet Homer", with Yul Brynner as this wanderer, tied a Broadway record by closing after one performance
  • A Joyce epic:"Odysseus"
  • This Joyce novel is about a trip to a bath, funeral, library, maternity hospital & brothel
  • Leopold makes breakfast, walks around Dublin all day; goes home; goes to bed
  • This James Joyce book was first published in France in 1922
  • This 1922 novel recasts the hero of Homer's "Odyssey" as an ad salesman in 1904 Dublin
  • Watch your dog perk up his ears when this Homeric hero returns to Ithaca & his dog Argus
  • First published in 1966, "The Bloomsday Book" is a guide to this James Joyce work
  • On Feb. 2, 1922 this James Joyce book was published by American Sylvia Beach under her own imprint in Paris
  • All of the action of this novel takes place on June 16, 1904 in Dublin
  • Odysseus
  • "The Lotus Eaters" & "Circe"
  • 1922:Dublin.June.Writer.Bloom.Intersection.Yes
  • ...All perfume no & his heart was going like mad & no I said no I won't no then I kicked him no
  • The last words of this 1922 novel are Molly's "Yes I said yes I will yes"
  • This James Joyce novel is written as a parallel to the "Odyssey", except it was set in Dublin on June 16, 1904
  • Leopold Bloom
  • Barred from the U.S. as obscene for 15 years, this James Joyce work was originally produced in Paris in 1922
  • "...All perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes" ends this book
  • (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Lisbon, Portugal.) Though it was once called Olissipo & is historically a city of seafarers, it's only a legend that Lisbon was founded by this Homeric wanderer