Well it's a step...published by the Bodley Head, 2008 (paperback). And thanks to Professor Hans Walter Gabler and his team of scholars (I imagine them in full combat uniform), the text of this edition is more accurate than many previous editions. These previous editions included 'an increasing number of transmission and printing errors". Thank goodness for Gabler!!
This version has an afterword by Michael Groden, who is a Professor and who has written a lot about James Joyce. He also advised Pf Gabler. I haven't read it yet, but I'm expecting it to be full of praise for Gabler's labour.
This version also has line numbers!
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Well well well...
Goodness me, five years have passed since that last post! Since then, I've moved states, bought a house, acquired a cat and finished two postgraduate degrees. Now THAT'S procrastination!
But the signs were all pointing to the fact that I should finish Ulysses, if only to get to the naughty bits. I'll have to dig up another copy, because I gave the other one back to Jo and Simon (thanks Jo and Simon!).
It took me five years to read about a third, I wonder how long it will take me to read the rest? Also, I wonder what the odds are on Zombie Dignam turning up?
But the signs were all pointing to the fact that I should finish Ulysses, if only to get to the naughty bits. I'll have to dig up another copy, because I gave the other one back to Jo and Simon (thanks Jo and Simon!).
It took me five years to read about a third, I wonder how long it will take me to read the rest? Also, I wonder what the odds are on Zombie Dignam turning up?
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