A few years back I had posted on Melanie O’Reilly’s song “I Lose Myself”, inspired by James Joyce and the Irish myths that inspired him. I wanted to pass the following flyer along to those in the San Francisco Bay area who may be interested in what sounds like a fun Bloomsday event: Bloomsday is […]
Tag: James Joyce
You can download the podcasts of BBC Radio 4’s presentation of Ulysses at this site. While it says the podcasts will be available for 14 days, don’t wait–Life and Fate had the same claim and those episodes were pulled after a week. Updates: a review of the adaptation. And another. An article on why Ulysses […]
Driving home yesterday I heard singer Melanie O’Reilly do a song titled “I Lose My Breath”, inspired by Molly Bloom in Joyce’s Ulysses. Instead of using Molly’s words directly (and avoiding Kate Bush’s 20+ year odyssey), O’Reilly turned to The Irish Book of Invasions for lyrics. If interested in the song, you can hear it […]
It is easy to see why there has been so much written about Portrait. The amount of different things happening is staggering and the discussion linked below only scratches the surface. Still, it’s a starting point and an enjoyable first encounter with the book. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man posts: Online […]
The IMDB page for the movie found here. I didn’t know what to expect from a movie version of the book. How do you portray everything that happened internally? Internal discourse can be done as a voiceover, but there is so much more happening inside Stephen than just thoughts. Despite some large lapses and omissions, […]
Of all the alienations, the most painful estrangement for me was Stephen’s distance from his family. Comparing Simon Dedalus’ attitude and actions toward his son at the start of Chapter 5 with their train trip in Chapter 2 (as well as trying to pull strings for him in Chapter 4) highlights the distance between the […]
Chapter 4 begins with Stephen’s religious discipline. One comment I saw for this section is that the language Joyce uses in this section is dry, but the change I notice more is the lack of sensual descriptions (with a few exceptions, made notable because of the lack everywhere else), especially compared to the first two […]
I finished the book a while ago but have been too busy to write. So going from memory on what I read a couple of weeks ago… The retreat in honor of St. Francis Xavier takes up the bulk of this chapter. As the book progresses, previous events are directly or indirectly echoed while additional […]
This chapter reflects much change in and around Stephen, with much of the change for the worst. Many of the things around Stephen show decline: Uncle Charles becomes senile or Stephen’s family encounters financial troubles, for example. Even something simple, like the description of coach Mike Flynn as a long way from being a famous […]
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road… Sign from cowdepot.com My comments on Joyce’s work will obviously pale in comparison to the library shelves groaning with books and dissertations analyzing everything down to the punctuation, but writing a post on what I […]