“Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot....”
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<b>The Gabler edition of <i>Ulysses</i>, the greatest 20th-century novel written in English, contains corrections to more than 5,000 errors in earlier editions.</b><br><br>Almost as soon as <i>Ulysses</i> first appeared, in Paris in 1922, James Joyce began to compile a list of errata, and publishers have continued the process ever since, often inadvertently adding to the list. In 1974, an international team of scholars headed by Professor Hans Walter Gabler began to study manuscript evidence, typescripts, and proofs in order to produce as accurate and complete a new edition as possible. First published in 1984, the Gabler edition was hailed as a monumental achievement, one that makes this great and complex novel more accessible and enjoyable than ever before. Also included is a preface by the distinguished Joyce scholar Richard Ellmann, a foreword and note on the text by Gabler, and an afterword by Michael Groden.<br><br>Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, <i>Ulysses</i> 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, <i>Ulysses</i> is one of the most important and enjoyable works of the twentieth century.
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James Joyce
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“Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot....”
“I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.”
“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
“How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use! As tho’ to breathe were life!”