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" [. ] O cet effrayant torrent tout au fond O et la mer la mer écarlate quelquefois comme du feu et les glorieux couchers de soleil et les figuiers dans les jardins de l''Alameda et toutes les ruelles bizarres et les maisons roses et bleues et jaunes et les roseraies et les jasmins et les geraniums et les cactus de Gibraltar quand j''etais jeune fille et une Fleur de la montagne oui quand j''ai mis la rose de mes cheveux comme les filles Andalouses ou en mettrai-je une rouge oui et comme il m''a embrasse sous le mur mauresque je me suis dit apres tout aussi bien lui qu''un autre et alors je lui ai demande avec les yeux de demander encore oui et alors il m''a demande si je voulais oui dire oui ma fleur de la montagne et d''abord je lui ai mis mes bras autour de lui oui et je l''ai attire sur moi pour qu''il sente mes seins tout parfumes oui et son cur battait comme fou et oui j''ai dit oui je veux bien Oui. ".

Entre 1905 y 1914 quince editores rechazaron el manuscrito de Dublineses en dieciocho ocasiones. Tantas dificultades llevaron a su autor a comenzar a escribir un nuevo capítulo de este libro, que acabaria convirtiendose en Ulises. La intencion inicial de James Joyce era ofrecer una imagen despiadada y burlona de la Irlanda dominada por el nacionalismo al que el odiaba y la Iglesia catolica. Segun Kevin Birmingham Joyce consideraba Dublin un gigantesco pozo de sifilis, y pretendia capturar la paralisis sifilitica camuflada en el centro de la vida moral de la ciudad, escribiendo sobre los ladronzuelos y politicastros. Ochenta años despues de la muerte de Joyce, Susana Carral ofrece una nueva traduccion de esta obra clasica, ilustrada a boligrafo por Javier Garcia Iglesias

La obra monumental de James Joyce. Ulises es el relato de un día en la vida de 3 personajes: Leopold Bloom, su mujer Molly y el joven Stephen Dedalus. Un viaje de un día, una Odisea inversa, en la que los temas topicamente homericos se invierten y subvierten a traves de un grupo decididamente antiheroico cuya tragedia raya la comicidad. Relato parodico de la epica de la condicion humana y de Dublin y sus buenas costumbres cuya estructura, desbordantemente vanguardista, avisa a cada rato de su dificultad y exige la maxima dedicacion. Ulises es un libro altisonante, soez y erudito donde los haya que ofrece una literatura distinta, extraña, ocasinalmente molesta y sin duda excepcional.

Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is significant for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language. Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years, and published in 1939, two years before the authors death, Finnegans Wake was Joyces final work. The entire book is written in a largely idiosyncratic language, consisting of a mixture of standard English lexical items and neologistic multilingual puns and portmanteau words, which many critics believe were attempts to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams.[3] Owing to the works expansive linguistic experiments, stream of consciousness writing style, literary allusions, free dream associations, and abandonment of narrative conventions, Finnegans Wake remains largely unread by the general public.

Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homers epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus, in addition to events and themes of the early twentieth century context of modernism, Dublin, and Irelands relationship to Britain. The novel imitates registers of centuries of English literature and is highly allusive. Ulysses stream-of-consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental prose full of puns, parodies, and allusions as well as its rich characterisation and broad humour, made the book a highly regarded novel in the modernist pantheon. Joyce fans worldwide now celebrate 16 June as Bloomsday.

Published in 1914, the original printers destroyed the book on the grounds that it was libellous, indecent and blasphemous. It is a collection of short stories about Dublin life - tales of ordinary men and women made extraordinary by the eye of Joyce's genius.

This work includes excerpts from "A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man", "Dubliners" and "Exiles", and shorter extracts from his other works.