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e book is the anti semitism which bloom meets with on his journey around dublin snide and disparaging remarks from other characters are a regular reminder of the prejudice he faces despite having converted to catholicism on his marriage to molly on its first and i believe subsequent publication ulysses was prosecuted for obscenity so how does it read now well it s hardly pornographic yes it s earthy and scatological there is discussion of subjects such as masturbation copulation bodily functions menstruation and all things physical but the language is never graphic even the word arse is shown as a e in my copy i imagine joyce s focus on the physical was shocking and groundbreaking at the time but he was recording the reality of life in the city as he saw it and that s fine ah the city dublin itself is as much the main character as anyone or anything else in the book and i really understand why there are ulysses maps and trails round the city as i can imagine it would be enormous fun to trace the route of the characters joyce had been living abroad for some time when he began to recreate dublin from his memories and i believe many of the characters and settings are drawn from his own past no wonder the city celebrates him there is a thread running through the book relating to shakespeare and in particularly his play hamlet and i sensed a resonance between the playwright s loss of his young son and bloom s loss of his own child rudy there s a lot of discussion of shakespeare between the characters alongside all kinds of other intellectual political and religious ruminations and this is a fascinating aspect of the book molly bloom is often referenced with relation to ulysses and it s not hard to see why the final section her soliloquy is eight long unpunctuated paragraphs following her thought processes as she lies next to leopold in bed it s clear throughout the book that their marriage is in a rocky state their one surviving child milly has left home to go off to work leopold finds relief elsewhere when he can and molly is not faithful either yet as the monologue builds and comes to an end with molly recollecting how it was when she and leopold be came a couple the prose becomes stunningly hypnotic building to a powerful climax it s a masterpiece and finishes the book on a triumphant note it has to be said that ulysses is in no way an easy book to read the shifting in styles the long sinuous sentences and the incoherence of the narrative in that it reflects normal thought processes requires concentration additionally joyce invents plenty of words of his own which do mostly make sense and don t always have the effect of wake nevertheless more attention is needed here despite this it s most definitely worth reading as the prose often becomes mesmerising and there are passages of great beauty it s immersive absorbing funny scurrilous and really like nothing else i ve read needless to say i ended up with a massive book hangover did i understand all of it not by a long chalk ulysses is riddled with allusion and references and so i decided to simply read it for the story and the language i can go back later for a more studied reponse the timing was right for me to read this now and i m so glad i did happy bloomsday i wanted to add a little coda to this post about the edition of ulysses which i read this was a gift from mr kaggsy some years back and it s an attractive hardback edition which was published by o brien press in 2013 endorsed by the james joyce centre i think it differs a little from other editions an example of the illustrations for a start the book comes with b w illustrations of parts of the city by emma byrne and one of these is featured at the beginning of each of the 18 sections these are a nice addition and every one bears a time which presumably represents when the action in the section is taking place the text is taken from the 1922 first edition and comes with an introduction by joyce s grand nephew bob joyce who does confess that he s never read all of the book however i do have to apply a couple of caveats firstly i don t know think the original book was published with breaks or any kind of headings between parts apart from the fact it was divided into three sections i don t have an issue with the ones inserted here as it does punctuate the book a little but i thought it worth mentioning secondly there is literally no supporting material at all and your attitude towards this may depend i enjoyed reading it simply as it was first seen apart from what i ve said in the previous paragraph and didn t worry too much about the references quotes and allusions however i definitely feel that on a re read i would want notation of some kind even if i ignored some of it and i think i would go for an annotated edition next time there are small reproductions at the end of this edition of a list of changes joyce made to the original edition but this is frankly not a lot of use as a it s very small and b none of the page numbers match up with this copy the page size is quite small which is why the book comes out at over 1000 pages though the type is of reasonable size would i recommend this edition i m not sure to be honest although it s a nice hefty little hardback and the illustrations are a lovely bonus i think i would definitely want a slightly more scholarly issue with some supporting material as it was i found the wikipedia entry on the book to be a very useful tool whilst reading the book and if you have a simple edition of ulysses i suggest making use of that i enjoyed reading this one though so well done mr k for finding it for me to end i thought i would share one of my favourite tracks by the band jefferson airplane it comes from one of the first vinyl records i ever bought after bathing at baxters which i still love and in this song grace slick riffs on ulysses share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on bluesky opens in new window bluesky like loading celebrating one of my favourite novels for dallowayday june 13 2026 kaggsysbookishramblings uncategorized dallowayday mrs dalloway virginia woolf 52 comments it s no secret that i m a huge fan of virginia woolf and i ve written before more than once no doubt about how mrs dalloway was a pivotal book in my life as well as sharing my thoughts on a re read as is known the story takes place over one day in june and there has been a dedicated dalloway day for some time now i m not sure this always on the same date but this year it s today 13th june now i ve always wanted to take part but i m not at the point of being able to re read mrs dalloway yet however it occurred to me that i had lurking on the tbr a rather interesting looking volume entitled mrs dalloway biography of a novel by mark hussey so i decided that reading this and sharing my thoughts on it would be ideal for this year s dalloway day in the biography hussey a professor of english at pace university new york traces the genesis writing publication and reception of woolf s fourth novel and it does make fascinating reading mrs dalloway was very much a product of its time reflecting the post ww1 world which was full of rapid changes the war had caused many fractures in society with the old norms starting to break down and the circle in which clarissa dalloway moved was in some ways out of date hussey reveals how the after effects of the fighting fed into the novel as well as discussing how woolf drew on her own mental health issues which informed the portrayal of her character septimus smith mrs dalloway is a great war novel an early instance of those works of the 1920s which made clear that the effects of war continue to reverberate through society long after the guns fall silent and the treaties are signed this seems obvious now when trauma has become such a common term but in showing how war s aftermath echoes through daily life mrs dalloway was groundbreaking so the first section entitled drafting mrs dalloway explores that history and in the second part of the book mrs dalloway content and influences hussey takes in the important elements which feed into the story london of course is pretty much a character in its own right and the book does reflect woolf s love of the city the exploration of politics here was particularly fascinating and also the influence of proust in part iii hussey moves on to the publication of dalloway through its proofing process the reactions of first readers and indeed the hostility aimed at the book from those who really did hate the bloomsbury group and its members the fourth section follows dalloway out into the world looking at resonances with ulysses as well as exploring the interpretations over the years and how it s continually been re evaluated the final part explores mrs dalloway s legacy revealing how it continues to be adapted and reworked for new generations a coda looks at the 21st century even covering the day dedicated to the book for which i m publishing this post i confess that when i first came across this book i was a little hesitant as dalloway is so important to me i did wonder how i would find someone else s take on it however it s clear that woolf s novel is also important to hussey and so i empathised with much of what he said his erudition is impressive and he draws on a wide range of sources all acknowledged to construct his arguments he even shares an image of his own first battered copy of the book as well as other editions he has and his discussions of the differing versions out there was illuminating i either didn t know or had forgotten that woolf provided a short introduction for the american modern library edition of the book and after some rummaging was delighted to find that i have this in the mrs dalloway reader which is lurking in mount tbr hussey is even handed in his discussions of responses to the book quoting some of the idiotic things critics have said about woolf and her writing and allowing we readers to make our own minds up about what we think of these which is refreshing although he s obviously partisan when it comes to woolf and her book he resists the temptation to condemn i would say that you do need to have read mrs dalloway before picking up this book despite what some online reviewers have said about this being a good way to decide if you want to read her or not there are by necessity a number of spoilers and in any event you d want to know the book even a little to read it s biography if i m truly honest i could have done with a little less on michael cunningham s the hours i acknowledge that it did a lot to bring dalloway back into the public eye but the coverage did feel slightly disproportionate to me additionally i have to agree with simon s comment in his excellent review of the book about the amount of space given to discussion of the character of doris kilman again i didn t think she necessarily warranted that much attention and it felt rather as if hussey was trying to reinterpret what woolf was doing with her to avert criticism of the author s snobbery however those are really minor quibbles and hussey has done a marvellous job exploring mrs dalloway and her world although i know a lot about woolf and the book i still found much food for thought here particularly in the discussions of the context surrounding the writing of it and the world of the time these sections were really illuminating the book is a joy to read and of course has had me wanting to go back to reading woolf again however when checking i realised that i have re read all of woolf s novels but one during the time of the blog so i may have to do something about that soon happy dalloway day share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on bluesky opens in new window bluesky like loading gritty stories in a harsh landscape over shinynewbooks june 11 2026 kaggsysbookishramblings uncategorized denis johnson jesus son shiny new books 8 comments i mentioned in my post on denis johnson s train dreams that i had also read his collection jesus son for shiny new books and that review is up today this was the book which really catapulted johnson into the public eye and it s a dark captivating collection of stories from the underbelly of life it made for compelling reading and my review is here share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on bluesky opens in new window bluesky like loading celebrating the centenary of a beat poet allenginsberg 20bos26 book 1 june 10 2026 kaggsysbookishramblings uncategorized allen ginsberg beat generation 22 comments although i revisited one of allen ginsberg s seminal poetry collections earlier in the year for our 1961 club reading week i had somehow missed that 2026 is the centenary of his birth however a good number of social media posts alerted me recently to the fact that his 100 year celebration was on 3rd june and so i decided i must mark the day by reading some of his work fortunately i remembered that i had picked up a slim anthology of his poetry issued as one of the penguin archive volumes and it turned out to be the perfect book to celebrate ginsberg s centenary sunflower sutra takes its title from one of the poems included and it contains a range of work from across ginsberg s life and work the first verse from 1949 is paterson the final poem after lalon 1992 is from the end of ginsberg s time he died in 1997 and it s fascinating to watch his work evolve as he ages this little volume is a wonderful introduction to ginsberg s writing as it features most of the elements you would expect from him earthy poetry about love and sex protest verse attacking the conservative nature of america poignant memories of his past and friends and reflections on nature and the world i was expecting to mostly read free verse or prose poetry but was surprised to encounter some very powerful rhyming works in fact the poem that i think hit me most was in that format september on jessore road i had to look this one up as i hadn t come across it before and it was written as a response to the east bengali refugee crisis of 1971 which ginsberg actually witnessed that one will stay with me what s the work to ease the pain of living everything else drunken dumbshow other memorable poems touched on ginsberg s relationship with his beat friends for example many loves from 1956 explores his relationship with jack kerouac s muse neal cassady it s a wonderful mixture of earthy and tender highlighting how much ginsberg felt for the man the title poem evokes a memory of a walk with kerouac where they encounter a ragged sunflower which provokes a profound reaction from the poet and in memory gardens written shortly after kerouac died in 1969 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