Ulysses

Resumen del libro

Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this starting point, James Joyce constructs a novel of extraordinary imaginative richness and depth. Unique in the history of literature, Ulysses is one of the most important and enjoyable works of the twentieth century.

Ulysses was published in Paris in 1922. It was first published in Great Britain by The Bodley Head in 1960. In 1974 a team of scholars, led by Professor Hans Walter Gabler, began to study manuscript evidence, typescripts and proofs in an attempt to reconstruct as closely as possible the creative process by which Joyce wrote Ulysses. This text is the revised 1993 edition of Gabler's version.

Biografía del autor

(Dublín, 1822 - Zúrich, 1941) es uno de los escritores más influyentes del siglo XX y su novela "Ulises" (1922) está considerada como una de las grandes obras maestras de la literatura universal. Destacado representante de lo que se ha dado en denominar el modernismo anglosajón , encabeza una generación de vanguardistas entre la que aparecen autores como Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf y T. S. Eliot. Jorge Luis Borges lo comparó con Shakespeare y Thomas Browne, y la "Enciclopedia Británica" asegura que su influencia es tan poderosa y atrae a tantos autores que muchos leen a Joyce sin necesidad de abrir las páginas de sus libros. Entre su obra sobresalen "Dublineses" (1914), "Retrato del artista adolescente" (1916) y "Finnegans Wake" (1939).