Bloomsday in New York, With James Joyce

‘Ulysses’ is among the least inevitable of classics — migraine inducing, obscene and kinky, pretentious, and unique.

Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. © The Estate of James Joyce
James Joyce's British Passport, issued 1924. Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. © The Estate of James Joyce

James Joyce wrote “Ulysses,” the great Irish novel, in continental Europe, so it is just as well that New York City is staging a generous show of the man in full, in all his bawdily voluminous brilliance. The host is the Morgan Library, the cache is enviable, and the man it brings into focus is not a starchy old master but a language obsessive, an Irish exilic bard, and a literary wild man.    

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