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Ulysses – Episode 3
Episode 3, Proteus In this chapter, characterized by its stream of consciousness narrative style, the action is presented to the reader through the prism of Stephen’s interior monologue. He finds his way to Sandymount Strand and mopes around for some time, mulling various philosophical concepts, his family, his life as a student in Paris, and again, [...]
Continue reading...Ulysses – Episode 2
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Episode 2, Nestor Stephen is teaching a history class on the victories of Pyrrhus of Epirus. The class is visibly bored, unconcerned with the subject and not disciplined. Before seeing the boys out of the classroom for a game of hockey, Stephen tells the students a cryptic and impenetrable riddle about a fox burying his grandmother [...]
Continue reading...Ulysses by James Joyce – Episode 1
Monday, September 28, 2009
Ulysses, the novel by James Joyce, chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title parallels and alludes to Odysseus (Latinised into Ulysses), the hero of Homer’s Odyssey (e.g., the correspondences between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus). Joyce fans [...]
Continue reading...Metamorphosis – Part 1
Sunday, September 20, 2009
When Gregor Samsa wakes from troubled dreams, he finds himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lays on his armour-like back, and if he lifts his head a little he can see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding is hardly able to cover it and seems ready to slide off any
Continue reading...Metamorphosis – Part 2
Saturday, September 19, 2009
He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily with his antennae – of which he was now beginning to learn the value – in order to see what had been happening there.
Continue reading...Metamorphosis – Part 3
Friday, September 18, 2009
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Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility – probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across his room – crawling over the ceiling was out of the question… ~ THE END ~
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