James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
First edition of Ulysses
February 2nd 1922: Ulysses published
On this day in 1922, the novel Ulysses by Irish author James Joyce was published in Paris. The publication of his most famous work coincided with Joyce’s fortieth birthday. It was originally published as a series of stories in The Little Review journal, and in 1922 one thousand copies were published by Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare and Company. The novel focuses on the character of Leopold Bloom on an ordinary day in Dublin - June 16th 1904. Bloom’s experiences mirror the Greek story of The Odyssey by Homer. Joyce fans around the world celebrate June 16th as ‘Bloomsday’. Ulysses is considered a hallmark of modernist literature, known for its distinctive stream-of-consciousness writing style. The novel is also distinguished by impressive length of around 265,000 words, split into three parts and eighteen ‘episodes’. Ulysses caused controversy at the time, and was censored and even banned in the US and UK for obscenity. Joyce, himself a Dublin native, wrote throughout his life, including poetry, plays, and journalism. The author died in Zurich in January 1941 aged 59.
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