Ulysses
Written by James Joyce
Narrated by LibriVox Community
2.5/5
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About this audiobook
NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as well as group readings; and no editing was required, so in places there may be some accidental variation from the original text ... Listener be warned!
James Joyce
James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. He came from a reasonably wealthy family which, predominantly because of the recklessness of Joyce's father John, was soon plunged into financial hardship. The young Joyce attended Clongowes College, Belvedere College and, eventually, University College, Dublin. In 1904 he met Nora Barnacle, and eloped with her to Croatia. From this point until the end of his life, Joyce lived as an exile, moving from Trieste to Rome, and then to Zurich and Paris. His major works are Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegan's Wake (1939). He died in 1941, by which time he had come to be regarded as one of the greatest novelists the world ever produced.
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Reviews for Ulysses
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A brave attempt, by a congenial group of readers. Some chapters are read better than others, no doubt. Despite the shortcomings of this performance, I think Joyce would have approved, with a hearty laugh, because the manner of reading expresses in direct form, some of the subject matter of the book, the love and conviviality of friends. All that being said, however, this great work of literature deserves a truly faithful adherence to the text. I hope this group can do the necessary study and preparation, and try again, perhaps inserting revised sections for parts that didn't go so well the first time.
I also appreciate very much the Irish fiddle playing that introduces various sections.
I have only listened so far to the first part of chapter one, so there may be other sections that are read with greater accuracy and feeling.
At the very least, this performance encourages the listener to go back and read this wonderful book in the original, and that is a great service in itself.2 people found this helpful
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Terrible narration. It sounds like a group of high school boys joking around.
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