Paperback, 577 pages

Spanish language

Published June 20, 1980 by Lumen.

ISBN:
978-84-264-1112-9
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4 stars (27 reviews)

Traducción y prólogo de José María Valverde.

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Review of 'Ulysses by James Joyce' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars


This was finally going to be the year I read Ulysses, and for my first time through I decided I was going to just dive in and read it all on my own, without notes or any preparation, and only a vague memory of the larger plot points of the original Homer epic. I did not expect it to take me four months to do it.

I have no fear of big, difficult books — I breezed right through 2666 and Infinite Jest and the complete works of Mark Danielewski — so I thought “just how hard could it be?” The answer is very hard. To understand and experience Ulysses I had to give it my full attention and read it far more closely than I’m used to reading. And both those things are difficult to me to do at the end of the day in bed when I normally …

Review of 'Ulysses by James Joyce' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

maybe not all lit-ruhchuh is supposed to be enjoyable to read. ulysses succeeds in being not-enjoyable with flying colors. i read about that dude and his shaving mirror probably twenty goddamn times before i finally stopped trying to read this thing.

if you want to give it a try, it's free online:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4300

and i still have a nice-looking copy glowering up at me on my real bookshelf, lest i get feeling masochistic again.

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