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Here are a few things to know about the literary masterpiece that has exhilarated and confounded its readers for 100 years.<\/h2>\n

In the century since its publication, James Joyce\u2019s Ulysses<\/em> has been described as beautiful, overrated, experimental, pornographic, dull, and genius.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also a great leveler,\u201d says James Longenbach, the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English<\/a> at the University of Rochester<\/a>. He has taught the book since the late 1980s as part of various undergraduate and graduate courses on literary modernism.<\/p>\n

\u201cI studied with A. Walton Litz, a great Joyce scholar, and I realized that if I didn\u2019t teach Ulysses<\/em>, I was squandering that experience,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Based on insights from Longenbach\u2019s years of reading, teaching, and writing about Ulysses<\/em>, we\u2019ve highlighted a few things you might not know about the 700-plus-page novel that regularly ranks among the greatest\u2014and most challenging\u2014English-language works of fiction.<\/p>\n

What is Ulysses<\/em> by James Joyce about? \u201cTwo things at once,\u201d argues Longenbach, one of which is language itself.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Published in 1922, the story traces a single day, June 16, 1904, in the lives of several characters in Dublin, Ireland. The main protagonists include \u201ceveryman\u201d Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus (a young man\u2014Joyce\u2019s literary alter ego\u2014struggling with the death of his mother), and Leopold\u2019s wife, Molly.<\/p>\n

Most of the novel follows Bloom as he traverses the city, endures an antisemitic tirade, crosses paths with Stephen, and ends his day back in bed alongside Molly, whose famous monologue concludes the novel.<\/p>\n

But a plot summary doesn\u2019t do the work justice. Here\u2019s how Longenbach, in a 2013 article for The Yale Review<\/em><\/a>, summed up Joyce\u2019s most famous work:<\/p>\n

Ulysses<\/em> is two things at once. On the one hand, it is a realistic novel, an unrelenting exploration of the inner and outer lives of three major characters and a multitude of minor ones. On the other, it is an elaborate verbal confection, an intricately designed work of art that draws attention to its linguistic surface, sometimes at the expense of the very illusion of inner life that it also creates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is no definitive edition of Joyce\u2019s Ulysses<\/em>. But there\u2019s a reason the \u201cGabler edition\u201d may stand above most others.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ulysses, <\/em>which was initially serialized in the United States in The Little Review<\/em>, \u201chad no editor, no publisher that existed prior to the moment of its publication, no typesetter who understood English,\u201d wrote Longenbach in The Yale Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The first edition was published in its entirety was in 1922 by Sylvia Beach, an American-born champion of Joyce and his work, as part of her Paris bookselling business Shakespeare and Company. Since then, more than a dozen versions have been published, many purporting to correct non-intentional errors and mistakes.<\/p>\n

For his part, Longenbach has students read the version edited by Hans Walter Gabler and released in 1984, which attempts to produce an accurate and complete version of the book. That\u2019s no easy task, however, given that Joyce wrote nearly a third of the work on the print proofs, notes Longenbach.<\/p>\n

Pre-Gabler editions, for example, have Stephen Dedalus receiving a telegram that reads, \u201cMother dying come home father,\u201d correcting the original manuscript\u2019s \u201cnother\u201d to \u201cmother,\u201d assuming a typo. \u201cThe Gabler edition, though, says nother<\/em>, as Joyce did originally, leaving readers to ponder this \u2018error,\u2019\u201d says Longenbach. \u201cNow, are there mistakes in Gabler? Yes, but fewer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Three examples of book cover art for James Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Ulysses<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The book\u2019s chapters, which Joyce called \u201cepisodes,\u201d are based on The Odyssey<\/em> by Homer\u2014but using the epic poem to interpret the work is misguided.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ulysses is the Latinized version of the Greek name Odysseus, and the book\u2019s eighteen episodes are loosely based on Homer\u2019s epic poem Odyssey<\/em>. So, that means Leopold Bloom is Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus is Telemachus, and Molly Bloom is Penelope, right?<\/p>\n

Longenbach cautions readers against using the Homeric poem as a Rosetta Stone to decipher meaning. \u201cIn the critical history of Ulysses<\/em>, attempts to find a key often only succeeded in turning Ulysses<\/em> into a lock,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Instead, Longenbach invites readers to revel in the book\u2019s panoply of literary and linguistic styles. These include the journalistic headlines interrupting the \u201cAeolus\u201d episode; the florid, romantic language in \u201cNausicaa\u201d; the stage directions in \u201cCirce\u201d; and Molly Bloom\u2019s famous, mostly unpunctuated final soliloquy. Even the realism that characterizes the early episodes is a consciously crafted artifice, as in any novel, but that reality is thrown into high relief by the explosion of styles that follow.<\/p>\n

Though he\u2019s the target of antisemitism, protagonist Leopold Bloom is not really Jewish. <\/strong><\/h3>\n

In the \u201cCyclops\u201d episode, Bloom is the target of an antisemitic tirade by a cartoonish Irishman referred to as \u201cthe citizen.\u201d To this assault, Bloom responds, \u201cYour God was a jew. Christ was a jew like me.\u201d He later admits he was only pretending to be Jewish: \u201cSo I without deviating from plain facts in the least told him his God, I mean Christ, was a jew too and all his family like me though in reality I\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>It\u2019s important to remember that Ulysses<\/em> begins to be really influential long before it was published in 1922.\u201d<\/div>\n

In other words, Bloom is not really Jewish\u2014nor does he consider himself to be Jewish, despite his father being a Hungarian Jew (one who converted to Protestantism before his son was born).<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could fill a page with the evidence,\u201d Longenbach says, who cites Bloom\u2019s being baptized twice (once as a Catholic, once as a Protestant) as well as his not being circumcised. \u201cThe first time we see him he\u2019s cooking a pork kidney!\u201d he adds. \u201cBut all of this information is scattered and buried and easy to overlook, so we as readers are allowed to make the same mistake as the citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Ulysses<\/em> is now often identified with Dublin, Joyce was no Irish nationalist. <\/strong><\/h3>\n

The book has come to be identified closely with not only Dublin, but also Ireland. For example, June 16 is known as Bloomsday, an annual commemoration and celebration of the life and works of Joyce. Named after protagonist Leopold Bloom, the day is marked in Dublin (and elsewhere) with various celebrations, such as participants retracing Bloom\u2019s route around the city and marathon readings of the novel.<\/p>\n

Yet Joyce\u2019s feelings about Ireland were complicated. An unabashed anarchist, \u201che thought it was an extremely backward and closed culture because it was pinched between the British Empire and the Catholic Church,\u201d explains Longenbach. \u201cAnd he abhorred the teaching of Irish as well as Irish nationalism, which he considered racist and sexist, like all nationalisms he knew.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Portrait of Irish author James Joyce (1882\u20131941) circa 1917. (Photo by Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The novel influenced other modernist writers, including T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. <\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to remember that Ulysses<\/em> begins to be really influential long before it was published in 1922,\u201d Longenbach says.<\/p>\n

Take, for example, T.S. Eliot, a contemporary and an admirer of Joyce\u2019s, and one of modernism\u2019s major writers. Heavily influenced by Ulysses<\/em> and published later that same year, Eliot\u2019s poem The Waste Land<\/em> is more than 400 lines long and similarly abounds with references and allusions.<\/p>\n

Yet Longenbach doesn\u2019t want students bogged down in the poem\u2019s annotations and explanations: \u201cI\u2019ve taught The Waste Land<\/em> probably a thousand times, and I\u2019ve never mentioned anything but form. You need to feel the multiplicity of sources, the weirdness coming in. But ultimately every part of that poem is lyrically pure\u2014what matters is how it sounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another leading modernist writer, Virginia Woolf, publicly praised Ulysses<\/em> while criticizing the book as \u201cpretentious\u201d and \u201ca mis-fire\u201d<\/a> in her diaries and letters.<\/p>\n

Among her best-known works is Mrs. Dalloway<\/em>, which details a day in the life of the protagonist and several others in post\u2013World War I England. Published in 1925, the novel is \u201cunbelievably beautiful,\u201d says Longenbach, but also \u201cunthinkable without the precedent of Joyce.\u201d Both novels explore their characters\u2019 interiority while highlighting the importance of the seemingly inconsequential. \u201cExcept that Mrs. Dalloway\u00a0<\/em>associates that with femininity, culturally speaking, to a degree that Ulysses<\/em> does not,\u201d Longenbach says.<\/p>\n

Is Joyce\u2019s Ulysses<\/em> hard to read? Yes, but don\u2019t let that stop you.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The book is definitely worth reading in Longenbach\u2019s estimation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter all these years of teaching it, I still notice things I hadn\u2019t before,\u201d Longenbach says. And although the text rewards readers, students, and scholars alike, it will almost inevitably frustrate them, too.<\/p>\n

He adds, \u201cAt a certain point, you\u2019re going to want to take the book and throw it across the room. That\u2019s OK. It\u2019s part of the reading process. It\u2019s just that Ulysses<\/em> might force you to confront that feeling more than other texts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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